Power to call for dramatic pieces, etc.

(1) If the State Government or in the Presidency-town the Commissioner of Police or elsewhere the District Collector, have or has reason to believe that an objectionable dramatic performance is about to take place, they, or he, as the case may be, may, by order, direct that no such dramatic performance shall take place in any public place within any area, unless a copy of the piece, if and so far as it is written, or some sufficient account of its purport, if and so far as it is in pantomime, has been furnished, not less than seven days before the performance, to the State Government, the Commissioner of Police or the District Collector aforesaid.