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The West Bengal ( Compulsory Censorship Of Film Publicity Materials ) Act, 1974State Act of West Bengal · Act 30 of 1974

(1) If any distributor, producer or exhibitor wants to display in the lobby of a cinema house or outside the cinema house or in any public place any publicity material, he shall make an application to the Board in such form as may be prescribed, for a Certificate of Censorship and shall submit such material along with the application in such manner as may be prescribed.

(2) The distributor, the producer or the exhibitor, as the case may be, shall, while making the application under sub-section (1), pay such fee as may be prescribed.

6. CO The Censor Officer shall examine the publicity material submitted under section 5 and place the publicity material together with his recommendations, if any, before the Board for its consideration.

(2) If after examining the publicity material and the recommendations of the Censor Officer the Board considers that the publicity material is free from obscenity and is suitable for public display it shall grant a Certificate of Censorship in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed which shall be signed by the Censor Officer or in his absence by such Assistant Censor Officer as may be empowered in this behalf by the Board and the publicity material shall then be returned to the person who submitted it.

(3) No distributor, producer or exhibitor shall display any publicity material in respect of which a Certificate of Censorship has not been granted under this Act.

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ActThe West Bengal ( Compulsory Censorship Of Film Publicity Materials ) Act, 1974
Section5
JurisdictionState of West Bengal
StatusIn force as published by the source

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