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No person shall smoke during a demonstration, exhibition or meeting, in any part of a show house or public hall reserved for the audience or the spectators. Every person responsible for the management of demons- tration or exhibition in a show house and every person who controls the deliberations of a public assembly or meeting in a public hall, shall bring to the notice of the audience or the spectators, by posting notices prominently or by exhi- biting slides in the case of any cinamatograpic exhibition, that any person smoking during a demonstration, exhibi- tion or meeting, in the show house or public hall shall be liable to prosecution. Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) shall be punishable with finewhich may extend fOT a first offence to fifty rupees and for a second or subsequent of-fence to two hundred rupees. Any police officer or any other person specialJy authorised in this behalf by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette, may direct any person found smoking in contravention of the provisions of section 3 to desist from smoking and if such person does not desist, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to rupees fifty. Any police officer or the person authorised may require a person who does not desist from smoking as directed under sub-section (1), to declare to him immediately his name and address and, if that person refuses or fails so to declare his name and address or if the police officer or the person authorised reasonably suspects him of giving a false name or address, the police officer or the person authorised may arrest him without a warrant.