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Prohibition of bill posting neon signs other kinds of advertisements etc
Act: Antiquities Act 1975
Section Provisions
ACT VII OF 1976 ANTIQUITIES ACT, 1975 ACT VII OF 1976 ANTIQUITIES ACT, 1975 An Act to repeal and re‑enact the law relating to the preservation and protection of antiquities 23. Prohibition of bill posting, neon signs, other kinds of advertisements, etc.‑(t) No person shall put any neon signs or other kinds of advertise ment, including bill posting, commercial signs, poles or pylons, electricity or telephone cables and television aerials, on or near any protected immovable antiquity. (2) Whoever contravenes the provision of subsection (1) shall be punish able with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees, or with both. (3) The Court trying an offence under subsection (2) may direct that the whole or any part of the fine recovered shall be applied in defraying the expenses of restoring the antiquity to the condition in which it was before the commission of the offence.