Licensing Authority

4. The authority having power to grant licences (hereinafter referred to as the licensing authority) shall be the District Magistrate within whose jurisdiction the place, where the exhibitions by means of cinematograph are proposed to be given, is situated: Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute, for the whole or any part of the State, such other authority, as it may specify in the notification, to be the licensing authority for the purpose of this Act.,