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The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act

5Dissemination of contents of prescribed document

(1) Whoever publishes, circulates or repeats in public any passage from a newspaper, book or other document copies whereof have been declared to be forfeited to Government under any law for the time being in force, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine, or with both.

(2) No Court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under this section unless the State Government has certified that the passage published, circulated or repeated contains, in the opinion of the State Government, seditious or other matter of the nature referred to in 1 sub-section (1) of section 99A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), or sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Indian Press (Emergency Powers) Act, 1931 (23 of 1931).

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1. Now see sub-section (1) of section 95 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).

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