State Act
Section 21. Savings.
21. (1) Every person,- 28[(i) exhibiting any film on television screen through video cassette recorder or V.C.Ds or D.V.Ds; or] (ii) keeping any video library, or selling, 29[buying, letting on hire or distributing] recorded film cassettes; immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall obtain a licence under this Act, within a period of four weeks from such commencement. 28[(2) If the person referred to in sub-section (1) fails to obtain the licence within the period mentioned in sub-section (1), he shall discontinue such exhibition and in the case of video library, he shall close such video library and in the case of selling, buying, letting on hire or distributing recorded film cassettes, discontinue such transactions.] (3) Nothing in the 30Telangana Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1955 shall apply to exhibition of film on television screen through video cassette recorders. (4) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section (3), the provisions of this Act, shall be in addition to and not derogation of the Cinematograph Act, 1952 and the 31Telangana Entertainments Tax Act, 1939, and any other law for the time bung in force; and nothing contained therein shall exempt any person from any proceeding by way of investigation or otherwise which might, apart from this Act, be instituted against him.