(1) This Act may be called the West Bengal Undesirable Advertisements (Control) Act, 1948.
(2) It extends to the whole of West Bengal.
(3) .It shall come into force on such date as the Provincial Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant Definitions.
in the subject or context,—
(1) "advertisement" includes oral advertisement and also includes any notice, sign, announcement, bill, hand-bill, circular, book, newspaper, magazine, periodical, pamphlet or leaflet, whether pictorial or otherwise;
(2) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(3) "sexual disorder" means any ailment, irregularity, affection or diseased condition of the organs of generation;
(4) "venereal disease" means syphilis, gonorrhcea or soft chancre or any sign, symptom or seguela of such disease and includes such other venereal diseases as may be prescribed by the Provincial Government in this behalf.