In this part--
          (1) "association" means any combination or body of persons, whether the same be known by any distinctive name or not; and
          (2) "unlawful association" means an association
              (a) which encourages or aids persons to commit acts of violence or intimidation or of which the members habitually commit such acts, or
              (b) which has been declared to be unlawful by the State Government under the powers hereby conferred.
                                                    STATE AMENDMENT
    Maharashtra.--
    Amendment of section 15 of Act XIV of 1908.--In the Indian Criminal Laws Amendment act, 1908, in its application to the pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay Excluding the transferred territories, and the Kutch area and the Vidarbha region of the Bombay State (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act of 1908"), in section 15, in clause (2), the word "or" at the end of sub-clause (a) and the whole of sub-clause (b) shall be deleted.
[Vide Bombay Act XXIV of 1959, s. 2]
    Maharashtra.--
    Amendment of section 15 of Act XIV of 1908.---In section 15 of the Indian Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1908, in its application to the State of Maharashtra (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act"), in clause (2), after the words "habitually commit such acts", the following shall be inserted, namely:--
                                                    "or
(b) which was been declared to be unlawful by the state Government under the powers hereby conferred."
[Vide Maharashtra Act XXXVIII of 1975, s. 2]
    Insertion of section 16 in Act XIV of 1908.--After section 15 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely:--
    "16. Power to declare association unlawful.--If the State Government is of opinion that any association interferes or has for its object interference with the public administration or the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community or the administration of the law or the maintenance of law and order, or that it constitutes a danger to the public peace, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare such association to be unlawful.".
[Vide Maharashtra Act XXXVIII of 1975, s. 3]