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Section 143B: Dangerous performances.

The Maharashtra Police Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 22 of 1951

[143B. Dangerous performances.- (1) No person shall without the previous permission of the Commissioner or the District Magistrate, as the case may be, and except in accordance with any conditions subject to which such permission is granted hold or give in any place which is likely to cause an assembly of person, any performance in which or during which he buries himself underground, or seals himself in receptacle or other thing, in such manner as to prevent all access of air to him and for such time as would ordinarily result in death by suffocation.

(2) If any person contravenes or attempts to contravene the provisions of this section, he shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine, or with both.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898), the offence punishable under this section shall be cognizable.]3

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Police Act.
Section143B
Marginal noteDangerous performances.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • inserted, Bom. 34 of 1959. Section 143B was inserted by Bom. 34 of 1959, s. 31.
  • other. See now the code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974).

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