(1) No person shall by means of any advertisement,—
(a) prescribe or offer to prescribe any medicine or appliance for use as contraceptive, or
(b) offer to treat any person for, or indicate the line of treatment of, any venereal disease, sexual disorder, irregularity of menstruation or any other prescribed disease, infirmity or abhor-.
mality or offer to prescribe, any remedy therefor, or give or offer to give any advice in connection with the treatment thereof.
Price—Indian, annas 2 ; English, 3d.
Prohibition of issue of certain advertisements.
The West Bengal Undesirable kdvertisements (Control) Act, 1948. - [West Ben. Act (Secti,,ons 4, ,5.)
(2) No person shall print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, for distribution or exhibition to the public, or circulate or cause to be circulated or exhibit or cause to be exhibited, to the public or to any person,—
(a) any advertisement referred to in sub-section (1), or
(b) any label or set of instructions, whether pictorial or otherwise, to be affixed to or delivered with, any packet, box, bottle or phial, if such label or set -of instructions recommends, asserts or infers that any remedy, medicine, medicinal or herbal preparation or any appliance or charm of any kind, - whether for use internally or externally, is a contraceptive or is useful or may be used as a contraceptive, or is a cure, or is useful or may be used, for the prevention, treatment or relief of any venereal disease, sexual disorder, irregularity of menstruation or any other prescribed disease, infirmity or abnormality.
venes section 3.
which contratisement, etc., documents, etc., containing adver- Confiscation of under that sub-section.
under sub-section (1) to take the action provided for
(2) The Pr persons or classes of persons who may be authorised thereof shall be forfeited to His Majesty.
3, and the Court trying such contravention may direct that such document or such article or thing and all copies ment which contravenes any of the provisions of section such person has reason to believe contains any advertise- Commissioner of Police in Calcutta and the District any document or any article or thing which Mlyagistrate elsewhere may at any time seize and detain who may be authorised in writing in this behalf by the