Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act : Short title and extent. Indian Bare Acts :

Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act,1911

Act No : 10

Section : Short title and extent.

THE PREVENTION OF SEDITIOUS MEETINGS ACT, 1911 ACT NO. 10 OF 1911 [22nd March, 1911.] An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the prevention of public meetings likely to promote sedition or to cause a disturbance of public tranquillity. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to the prevention of public meetings likely to promote sedition or to cause a disturbance of public tranquillity ; It is hereby enacted as follows:- 1.Short title and extent. (1) This Act may be called the Prevention of Seditious Meetings Act, 1911. (2)It extends to the whole of India except 1*[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States], but shall have operation only in such States or parts of States as the State Government may from time to time notify in the Official Gazette.