Section 3 — Power to prohibit objectionable performances.

3. Power to prohibit objectionable performances. --- (1) Whenever the State 
Government are satisfied that any play, pantomime or other drama performed or 
about to be performed in a public place is an objectionable performance, they may, 
by order stating the grounds on which they consider the performance 
objectionable, prohibit the performance. 

  (2) No order under sub-section  (1) shall be passed without giving a 
reasonable opportunity to the organizer or other principal persons responsible for 
the conduct of the performance or to the owner or occupier of the public place in 
which such performance is intended to take place to show cause why the 
performance should not be prohibited.  

 
 
 



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  (3) Every order made under sub-section  (1) shall be published in the State 
Gazette.  

  (4) Any order made under sub-section  (1) may also be notified by 
proclamation and a written or printed notice thereof may be affixed at any place or 
places adapted for giving information of the order to the persons intending to take 
part in the performance so prohibited.