Act Number: 37

Act Name: The Cinematograph Act, 1952

Year: 1952

Enactment Date: 1952-03-21

Long Title: An Act to make provision for the certification of cinematograph films for exhibition and for regulating exhibitions by means of cinematographs.

Ministry: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

Department:

Section 11: Licensing 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.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 58 of 1960, s. 3 and Schedule II, for "Part C State".
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