(1) Every person,- 28[(i) exhibiting any film on television screen through video cassette recorder or V.C.Ds or D.V.Ds; or]
(ii) keeping any video library, or selling, 29[buying, letting on hire or distributing] recorded film cassettes;
immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall obtain a licence under this Act, within a period of four weeks from such commencement.
28[(2) If the person referred to in sub-section (1) fails to obtain the licence within the period mentioned in sub-
28. Substituted by Act No.13 of 2005.
29. Inserted by Act No.13 of 2005.
Savings.
18 [Act No.12 of 1993] section (1), he shall discontinue such exhibition and in the case of video library, he shall close such video library and in the case of selling, buying, letting on hire or distributing recorded film cassettes, discontinue such transactions.]
(3) Nothing in the 30Telangana Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1955 shall apply to exhibition of film on television screen through video cassette recorders.
(4) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (3), the provisions of this Act, shall be in addition to and not derogation of the Cinematograph Act, 1952 and the 31Telangana Entertainments Tax Act, 1939, and any other law for the time bung in force; and nothing contained therein shall exempt any person from any proceeding by way of investigation or otherwise which might, apart from this Act, be instituted against him.
22. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any officer of the Government for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act, or the rules made thereunder.
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30. Re-enacted in Andhra Pradesh Act VI of 1956 and adapted in G.O.Ms.No.17, Energy (Budget) Department, dated 31.05.2016.
31. This Act has been repealed by Act No.23 of 2017.
Act IV of 1955.
Central Act XXXVII of
1952.
Act X of 1939 Protection of Acts done in good faith.
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