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Young Persons (Harmful Publication) Act, 1956 Section 2

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 1956

In this Act,-- (a) "harmful publication" means any book, magazine, pamphlet, leaflet, news-paper or other like publication which consists of stories told with the aid of pictures or without the aid of pictures or wholly in pictures, being stories portraying wholly or mainly-- (i) the commission of offences; or (ii) acts of violence or cruelty; or (iii) incidents of a repulsive or horrible nature; in such a way that the publication as a whole would tend to corrupt a young person into whose hands it might fall, whether by inciting or encouraging him to commit offences or acts of violence or cruelly or in any other manner whatsoever; (b) "State Government" in relation to a Union territory, means the administrator thereof; (c) "young person" means a person under the age of twenty years.

Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1995

CABLE TELEVISION NETWORKS (REGULATION) ACT, 1995 CABLE TELEVISION NETWORKS (REGULATION) ACT, 1995 [Act No. 7 of Year 1995, dated 25-3-1995] Promulgated by the President in the Forty-fifth Year of the Republic of India. An Act to regulate the operation of cable television networks in the country and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-sixth year of the Republic of India as follows: - CHAPTER 1: PRELIMINARY SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE, EXTENT AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act,1995. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 29th day of September, 1994. SECTION 02: DEFINITIONS In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "cable operator' means any person who provides cable service through a cable television network or otherwise controls or is responsible for the management and operation of a cable television network; (b) "cable service" means the transmission by cables of programmes including re-transmission by cable of any broadcast television signals; (c) "cable television network" means.....

Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1956

.....(1) in respect of any publication it shall be lawful for any police officer to seize the same wherever found in the territories to which this Act extends. SECTION 05: APPEAL TO HIGH COURT AGAINST ORDER OF FORFEITURE Any person aggrieved by an. order of forfeiture passed by the State Government under Sec. 4-may, within sixty days of the date of such order apply to the High Court to set aside the order, and upon such application the High Court may pass such order as it deems fit. SECTION 06: POWER TO SEIZE AND DESTROY HARMFUL PUBLICATIONS (1) Any police officer or any other officer empowered in this behalf by the State Government may seize harmful publication. (2) Any Magistrate of the first class may, by warrant, authorize any police officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector to enter and search any place where any stock of harmful publication may be or may be reasonably suspected to be, and such police officer may seize any publication found in such place if in his opinion it is a harmful publication. (3) Any publication seized under the dub section(1) shall be produced, as soon as may be, before a Magistrate of the first class, and any publication seized.....

The Nagaland (Requisition of Porters) Act, 1965 Complete Act

State: Nagaland

Year: 1965

.....of Nagaland of on 5 April, 1995 and published in the Nagaland Gazette extraordinary dated 25th April, 1995) An Act to further amend the Nagaland (Requisition of Porters) Act, 1965 (Act, No. 7 or 1965) It is hereby enacted in the Forty Sixth years of the Republic of India as follows:- 1. Short title, extent and Commencement. (i) This Act may be called the Nagaland (Requisition of Posters) Amendment Act, 1995. (ii) It extends to the whole or Nagaland. (iii) It shall come into force at once. 2. Amendment of section 2 of the Nagaland (Requisition of Porters) Act, 1965: For clause (a) of section 2 the following shall be substituted namely: (a) Emergency includes a situation where under a public servant is unable to deal with a calamity or threatened calamity such as fire, flood, earthquake, violent epidemic or epizootic disease, invasions by animals insects, or vegetables pests, and in generals any circumstance that would endanger the existence or the well-being of the whole or part of the community for want of porters to carry any essential items of equipment and stores and to place not connected by road or rail. Nagaland State Acts