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Section 4. Licensing authority.
The Maharashtra Cinemas (Regulations) Act.
Act no. XI of 19531953In forceMaharashtra (State Act)
4. Licensing authority.— The authority having power to grant licences under this Act, shall be– (i) in Greater Bombay, the Commissioner of Police, Greater Bombay ; (ii) in other areas for which a Commissioner of Police is appointed under section 7 of the Bombay Police Act, 1951(Bom. XXII of 1951), such Commissioner ; and (iii) elsewhere, the District Magistrate : Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute for the whole or any part of the 10[State of Maharashtra] such other authority as it may specify in the notification to be licensing authority for the purposes of this Act.