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(1) The Provincial Government may, for the purpose Power to of preventing or suppressing subversive ac.ts, by order impose addressed to a printer, publisher or editor, or to printers, ce:15or. publishers and editors generally, . • ship. (a) require that all matters, or any matter relating to a particular subject or class oi sub,jects, shaII, before being published in any document or class of docu- :.f:;. ments, be submitted for scrutiny to an authority speeified in the order; • ) prohibit orregulate the maling or publishing of an. document or class of documents, or of any matter e relating to a particular subject or glass of subjects, or the use of any· press, as denned in the Indian Press (Emergency Powers) .Act, 1931. ?) If any person contravenes any order ziade under 3 section (1), then., without prejudice to any other proceedings which may he taken against such· person, the Provincial Goveniment may declare to he forfeited to His Majesty every Copy_ of any document published made in contra- vention of such order and any press, as defined in the Indian Press (Emergency Powers) Act, 1931, used in the making of such document. ~ (3) If any person contravenes any order made under this section, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years or with :fine or with both. E£Cplanation.-In this Chapter "document" includes gramophone 1·ecords sound;, tracks and any other articles on hich sounds hae been recorded with a iem to their s3 sequent reproduction. XXIII of 1931.· - k? 'IJ· ·} % #± 6 The West Bengal Security Act, 1948. Punish- ment for. carrying oi pos- sessing any gor- rosive " substance or liquid. Def6ni- tion of looting. Use of force to stop looting. ,-, [West Ben. Act (Chapter III..Public Safety and Order.-Sections 10-13.) CHAPTER III. Public Safety and Order, .