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Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act, 1911 Preamble 1

Title: Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act, 1911

State: Central

Year: 1911

THE PREVENTION OF SEDITIOUS MEETINGS ACT, 1911 [Act No.10 of 1911] [AS ON 1956] [22nd March, 1911] PREAMBLE An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the prevention of public meetings likely to promote sedition or to cause a disturbance of public tranquillity. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the prevention of public meetings likely to promote sedition or to cause a disturbance of public tranquillity; It is hereby enacted as follows:

Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act, 1911 Complete Act

Title: Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act, 1911

State: Central

Year: 1911

Preamble1 - PREVENTION OF SEDITIOUS MEETINGS ACT, 1911 Section1 - Short title and extent Section2 - Power of State Government to notify proclaimed areas Section3 - Definition Section4 - Notice to be given of public meetings Section5 - Power to prohibit public meetings Section6 - Penalties Section7 - Penalty for delivery of speeches in public places Section8 - Cognizance of offences Section9 - Repeals

Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act, 1911 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1911

.....4-, without the permission in writing of the Magistrate of the district or of the Commissioner of Police, as the case may be, previously obtained, delivers any lecture, address or speech on any subject likely to cause disturbance or public excitement to persons then present may be arrested without warrant and shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both. SECTION 08: COGNISANCE OF OFFENCES No Court inferior to that of a Presidency Magistrate or of a Magistrate of the first class or Sub-Divisioinal Magistrate shall try any offence against this Act. SECTION 09: REPEALS [Repealed by the Repealing Act, 1927 (XII of 1927), S. 2 and Schedule.] Central Bare Acts

Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act, 1911 Section 1

Title: Short Title and Extent

State: Central

Year: 1911

(1) This Act may be called the Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act, 1911. (2)It extends to the whole of India except1[Territories which immediately before 1stNovember, 1956, were comprised in Part B States], but shall have operation only in such States or parts of States as the State Government may from time to time notify in the Official Gazette. ______________________ 1. Substituted for "Part B States" by A.L.O., 1956. w.e.f. 01-11-1956

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....as such Magistrate, exercised the powers of an Assistant Sessions Judge, he may be invested with the powers under this section notwithstanding the fact that he has not exercised the powers of Magistrate of the first class for not less than ten years." Act 19 of 1969, Section 3 and Schedule, Item 14 (in Delhi on 2-10-1969). WEST BENGAL In its application to the State of West Bengal, for Section 30, substitute the following, namely: "30. Offences punishment with imprisonment not exceeding seven years.-Notwithstanding any thing contained in Section 28 or Section 29, the State Government may, in consultation with the High Court, invest any Judicial Magistrate of the first class with power to try as a Magistrate all offences not punishable with death or with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment for a term exceeding seven years : Provided that no Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such powers unless he has, for not less than ten years, exercised powers not inferior to those of a Judicial Magistrate of the first class : Provided further that if any Judicial Magistrate of the first class has, prior to his appointment as such Magistrate,.....

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Chapter V

Title: Conditions of Transmission of Postal Articles

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....detaining any postal article under the provisions of sub-section (1) shall forthwith send by post to the addressee of such article, notice of the fact of such detention. (3) The State Government shall cause the contents of any postal article detained under sub-section (1) to be examined, and, if it appears to the State Government that the article contained any newspaper, book or other document, of the nature described in clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (1), may pass such orders as to the disposal of the article and its contents as it may deem proper, and, if it does not so appear, shall release the article and it contents, unless the same be otherwise liable to seizure under any law for the time being in force: Provided that any person interested in any article detained under theprovisions of clause (a) of sub-section (1) may, within two months from the date of such detention, apply to the State Government for release of the same, and the State Government shall consider such application and pass such orders thereon as it may deem to be proper: Provided also that, if such application is rejected, the applicant may, within two months from the date of the order.....

Post Office Act, 1898 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....accepting delivery of the postal article, unless he forthwith returns it unopened : Provided that, if any such postal article appears to the satisfaction of the Post-Master-General' to have been maliciously sent for the purpose of annoying the addressee, he may remit the postage. (2) If any postal article on which postage or any other sum chargeable under this Act is due, is refused or returned as aforesaid, or if the addressee is dead or cannot be found, then the sender shall be bound to pay the postage or sum due thereon under this Act SECTION 12 : Recovery of postage and other sums due in respect of postal articles If any person refuses to pay any postage or other sum due from him under this Act in respect of any postal article, the sum so due may, on application made by an officer of the Post Officer authorized in this behalf by the written order of the Post-Master-General, be recovered for the use of the Post Office from the person so refusing, as if it were a fine imposed under this Act, by any Magistrate having jurisdiction where that person may for the time being be resident, and the post-Master-General may further direct that any other postal article, not being on.....

Indian Post Office Act, 1898 Section 27B

Title: Power to Detain Newspapers and Other Articles Being Transmitted by Post

State: Central

Year: 1898

.....detaining any postal article under the provisions of sub-section (1) shall forthwith send by post to the addressee of such article, notice of the fact of such detention. (3) The State Government shall cause the contents of any postal article detained under sub-section (1) to be examined, and, if it appears to the State Government that the article contained any newspaper, book or other document, of the nature described in clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section (1), may pass such orders as to the disposal of the article and its contents as it may deem proper, and, if it does not so appear, shall release the article and it contents, unless the same be otherwise liable to seizure under any law for the time being in force: Provided that any person interested in any article detained under theprovisions of clause (a) of sub-section (1) may, within two months from the date of such detention, apply to the State Government for release of the same, and the State Government shall consider such application and pass such orders thereon as it may deem to be proper: Provided also that, if such application is rejected, the applicant may, within two months from the date of the order.....

Dramatic Performances Act, 1876 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1876

.....suspected to have been used, or to be intended to be used, for the purpose of such performance. SECTION 09: SAVING OF PROSECUTIONS UNDER PENAL CODE, SECTIONS 124A AND 294 - No conviction under this Act shall bar a prosecution undersection 124A-orsection 294 of the Indian Penal Code- SECTION 10: POWER TO PROHIBIT DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE IN ANY LOCAL AREA, EXCEPT UNDER LICENCE - Whenever it appears to the7[State Government] that the provisions of this section are required in any local area, it may8[* * *] declare, by notification in the Official Gazette, that such provisions are applied to such area from a day to be fixed in the notification. On and after that day, the7[State Government] may order that no dramatic performance shall take place in any place of public entertainment within such area, except under a licence to be granted by such7[State Government], or such officer as it may specially empower in this behalf. The7[State Government] may also order that no dramatic performance shall take place in any place of public entertainment within such 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.....

Press Act, 1910 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1910

.....for an application, within two months of the date of such declaration to a special bench of three Judges of the High Court, on the question of fact whether the matter directed to is or is not of the description defined in the Bill. If the High Court finds that it is not of that description, it must cancel the order of forfeiture. All other legal proceedings for action taken under the Bill are barred. Subsidiary matters provided for in the Bill are the search for and seizure under special warrant of the Magistrate of property declared forfeit under the Bill; for the submission by the printer of every newspaper to such officer as the Local Government may direct of two copies of each issue of his paper on pain of a penalty of Rs. 50 for each default; the return of security deposited by a printer or a publisher, when such person ceases to keep a printing-press or, being a publisher, makes a declaration under Section 8 of the Press and Registration of Books Act of 1867and lastly the saving of prosecutions under any other law. The following report of the Select Committee on the Bill to provide for the better control of the Press, was presented to the Council of the Governor-.....