Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to control publications.-(I) The 2[State Government] or any authority so authorisecl in this beh~lfif satisfied that such action is necessary for the purposes of preventing or colnbnting any activity prejudicial to the maintenance of communal harmony affecrii~g or iikely to affect public order may by order in writing nddresscd to a painter, publisher or editor,- (a) prohibit the printing or publication in any document or any class of documenis of any matter relating to a particular subject or class of subjccts for a specified period or in :I particular iswe ur issues of a rlewspaper or periodical : Provided that no such order shall remain In force for more than two months from the making thereof, 3[unless before the expiry of such period the "State Government], by an order made in the like manner, extends it by any period not exceeding two mvllths at a time as it thinks fit so, however, illat the' total period of the original 2rdcr does not exceed six months] ; Provided further that he person against whom the order has been made may w~thin ten clays ol'the p;~sc~i?g of this order malce a representation to the 2[State Government] ~~iilich may on consider2tlosz thereof modify, confirill or rescind the order ; (b) require that any matter, covering not more than two columns, be published in any particular issue or isrues of a newspaper or pesiodical on payment of adequate remuneration, and may while doing so, specify the period (not exceeding one week) during which and the manner in ivl-tich such publicatiori shall take place ; (c) requirethat any matter relating to a particular subject or class of subjects, shall befare publication be subi~littecl for scrutiny by an authority appointed by !he 2[Statc Government,] in its behalf and published only in accordance wilh the directions given thereat.