Act Number: 60

Act Name: The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986

Year: 1986

Enactment Date: 1986-12-23

Long Title: An Act to prohibit indecent representation of women through advertisements or in publications, writings, paintings, figures or in any other manner and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development

Department:

Section 2: Definitions.
    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
         (a) "advertisement" includes any notice, circular, label, wrapper or other document and also includes any visible representation made by means of any light, sound, smoke or gas;
         (b) "distribution" includes distribution by way of samples whether free or otherwise;
         (c) "indecent representation of women" means the depiction in any manner of the figure of a woman, her form or body or any part thereof in such a way as to have the effect of being indecent, or derogatory to, or denigrating, women, or is likely to deprave, corrupt or injure the public morality or morals;
         (d) "label" means any written, marked, stamped, printed or graphic matter, affixed to, or appearing upon, any package;
         (e) "package" includes a box, carton, tin or other container;
         (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.
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