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In areas under their respective charges the Commissioner, and subject to his orders every Police officer not inferior in rank to an Inspector, and the District Superintendent and subject to his orders any Police Officer of not lower than such rank as may be specified by the State Government in that behalf, may, from time to time as occasion may arise, but not so as to contravene any rule or order under section 33 give all such orders either orally or in writing as may be necessary to-- (a) direct the conduct of, and behaviour or action of persons constituting processions or assemblies on or along the streets; (b) prescribe the routes by which and the times at which any such processions may or may not pass ; (c) prevent obstructions on the occasion of all processions and assemblies and in the nighbourhood of all places of worship during the time of worship and in all cases when any street or public place or place of public resort may be thronged or liable to be obstructed; (d) keep order on all streets, quays, wharves, and at and within public bathing, washing and landing places, fairs,temples and all other places of public resort; (e) regulate and control the playing of music or singing, or the beating of drums, tom-toms and other instruments and the blowing or sounding of horns or other noisy instruments, in or near any street or public place; '[(ea) regulate and control the use of loud-speakers in or near any public place or in any place of public entertainment;] (/} make reasonable orders subordinate to and in furtherance of any order made by a competent authority under section 33, 35, 37 to 40, 42, 43 and 45 of this Act 37, The Commissioner and the District Magistrate in areas under their respective charges may, whenever and for such time as he shall consider necessary for the preservation of public peace or public safety by a notification publicly promulgated or addressed to individuals, prohibit at any town, village or place or in the vicinity of any such town, village or place- (a) the carrying of arms, cudgels, swords, spears, bludgeons, guns, knives, sticks or lathis or any other article, which capable of being used for causing physical violence, (b) the carrying of any corrosive substance or of explosives, (c) the carrying collection and preparation of stones or other missiles or instruments or means of a casting or impelling missiles, l. Clause (ea) was inserted by Born. 28 of 1954, s. 8. 1951: Born. XXII) Gujarat Police Act. 1951 H-2057-(8) 1[(cc) the carrying of burning or lighted torches in a procession,] (d) the exhibition of persons or corpses of figures or effigies thereof, (e) the public utterance of cries, singing of songs, playing of music, (j) delivery of harangues, the use of gestures or mimetic representations, and the preparation, exhibition or dissemination of pictures, symbols, placards or any other object or thing which may in the opinion of such authority offend against decency or morality or undermine the security of or tend to over-throw the State. (2) If any person goes armed with any such article or carries any '[corrosive substance, explosive, missile, instrument, means or burning or lighted torch] in contravention of such prohibition, he shall be liable to be disarmed or the '[corrosive substance, explosive, missile, instrument, means or burning or lighted torch] shall be liable to be seized from him by any Police officer, and the article, '[corrosive substance, explosive, missile, instrument, means or burning or lighted torch] so seized shall be forefeited to the State Government. (3) The authority empowered under sub-section (J) may also be order in writing prohibit any assembly or procession whenever and for so long as it considers such prohibition to be necessary for the preservation of the public order : Provided that no such prohibition shall remain in force for more than fifteen days without the sanction of the State Government. ( 4) The authority empowered under sub-section (1) may also be public notice temporarily reserve for any public purpose any street or public place and prohibit persons from entering the area so reserved, except under such conditions as may be prescribed by such authority.