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Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016. [Act No.28 of 1997] 3 (1) expressing disapprobation or criticism of any law or of any policy or administrative action of the Government with a view to obtain its alteration or redress by lawful means; (2) criticizing any social or religious practice without malicious intentions and with an honest view to promote social or religious reform or social Justice; (f) “place open to public view” includes any private place or building, monument, statue, post-wall, fence, tree or other thing or contrivance visible to a person being in, or passing along, any public place; (g) “poster” means any printed, typed, hand written, cyclostyled or xeroxed matter or design or pictorial representation usually meant to be displayed as a playcard or pasted on any wall, building, hoarding or other place open to public view whether by cinematograph exhibition or otherwise but does not include the exhibition of a cinematograph film inside the auditorium of a cinema theatre; (h) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (i) “Public place” means any place (including a road, street or way, whether a thoroughfare or not and a landing place) to which the public are granted access or have a right to resort, or over which they have a right to pass. CHAPTER - II Prevention of disfigurement of open places