LawgistThe Cinematograph Act
11Licensing authority
The authority having power to grant licences under this Part (hereinafter referred to as the licensing authority) shall be the district magistrate:
Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute, for the whole or any part of a 1[Union territory], such other authority as it may specify in the notification to be the licensing authority for the purposes of this Part.
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1. Subs. by Act 58 of 1960, s. 3 and Schedule II, for "Part C State".
REGULATION OF EXHIBITIONS BY MEANS OF CINEMATOGRAPHS
- 10 Cinematograph exhibitions to be licensed
- 11 Licensing authority
- 12 Restrictions on powers of licensing authority
- 13 Power of Central Government or local authority to suspend exhibition of films in certain cases
- 14 Penalties for contravention of this Part
- 15 Power to revoke licence
- 16 Power to make rules
- 17 Power to exempt
