Section 4:

4. Preservation or performance to be approved (1) No person shall present, or perform, in public a stage play unless it has been submitted to, and approved by, the Board. (2) (a) The approval shall be signified by a certificate in the prescribed form. (b) The certificate may be cancelled by the Board, by notice in writing to the person to whom it is issued, specifying the reason for the cancellation. (3) The Board may approve or reject a stage play unconditionally, or approve it subject to a condition that it shall be presented to or performed before persons of a specified age, or only after any specified portion or portions are excised. (4) Where the Board has rejected or approved conditionally a stage play, the person who has submitted the stage play may apply to the Board to state, within 3 days of the application, the reason for the rejection or conditional approval. (5) A stage play, to which any matter has been added after it has been approved by the Board, shall be submitted again for approval and, until it has been again approved, shall be deemed not to have been approved. (6) Where the certificate granted in respect of a stage play is cancelled, the play shall, as from the date of the cancellation, be deemed not to have been approved. (7) A stage play presented or performed in contravention of a condition imposed by the Board under subsection (3) shall be deemed not to have been approved. (8) Any person who, in contravention of a condition imposed by the Board, allows a minor to enter a public place where a stage play is to be presented or performed, shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be [Issue 1] S31 – 2 liable to a fine which, notwithstanding section 153 of the Criminal Procedure Act, shall not be less than 5,000 rupees nor more than 50,000 rupees and to imprisonment for a term of 2 years. [S. 4 amended by Act 15 of 1998.]