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(1) If the State Government or the Deputy Commissioner has reason to believe that an objectionable dramatic performance is about to take place, it 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 or the Deputy Commissioner aforesaid.
(2) A copy of any order made under sub-section (1) shall be served on the organisers or other principal persons responsible for the conduct of the dramatic performance or the owner or occupier of the public place in which such performance is intended to take place, and if thereafter any such person does or willingly permits, any act in disobedience of such order, he shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.