Jammu and Kashmir Prize Competitions Act, 1956

No: 12 Dated: May, 31 1956

THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR PRIZE COMPETITIONS ACT, 1956

(Act No. XII of 1956)

An Act to provide for the control and regulation of Prize Competition.

Be it enacted by the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislature in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Prize Competitions Act, 1956.

(2) It extends to the whole of the Jammu and Kashmir State.

(3) It shall come into force on such date as Government may, by notification in the Government Gazette, appoint.

2. Definitions. - In this Act unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) "licensing authority" means any officer or authority appointed by the Government, by notification in the Government Gazette, for the purpose of granting licences under this Act;

(b) "money" includes a cheque, postal-order or money order;

(c) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(d) "prize competition" means any competition (whether called a crossword prize competition, a missing word prize competition, a picture prize competition or by any other name) in which prizes are offered for the solution of any puzzle based upon the building up, arrangement, combination or permutation of letters, words or figures.

3. Interpretation. - For the purposes of this Act-

(a) references to printing shall be construed as including references to writing and other modes of representing or reproducing letters, words or figures in a visible form; and

(b) documents or other matters shall be deemed to be distributed to persons or places within or outside the territories to which this Act extends and the word "distribution" shall be construed accordingly.

4. Prohibition of prize competitions where the prize offered exceeds one thousand rupees a month. - No person shall promote or conduct any prizes competition or competitions in which the total value of the prize or prizes (whether in cash or otherwise) to be offered in any month exceeds five hundred rupees; and in every prize competition, the number of entries shall not exceed one thousand.

5. Licensing of prize competitions where the prize offered does not exceed one thousand rupees a month. - Subject to the provisions of section 4, no person shall promote or conduct any prize competition or competitions in which the total value of the prize or prizes (whether in cash or otherwise) to be offered in any month does not exceed five hundred rupees unless he has obtained in this behalf a licence granted in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder.