law: Dramatic Performances Act, 1876
  10. Power to prohibit dramatic performance in
  
  any local area, except under license
  Whenever it appears to the State Government
  
  that the provisions of this section are required in any local area, it may
  
  6[***] declare, by notification in the Official Gazette, that such provisions
  
  are applied to such area from a day to be fixed in the notification.
  On and after that day, the State Government
  
  may order that no dramatic performance shall take place in any place of public
  
  entertainment within such area, except under a license to be granted by such
  
  State Government, or such officer as it may specially empower in this behalf.
  The State Government may also order that no
  
  dramatic performance shall take place in any place of public entertainment
  
  within such area, unless a copy of the piece, if and so far as it is written,
  
  or some sufficient account of its purport, if and so far as it is in pantomime
  
  has been furnished, not less than three days before the performance, to the
  
  State Government or to such officer as it may appoint in this behalf.
  A copy of any order under this section may be
  
  served on any keeper of a place of public entertainment; and if thereafter he
  
  does, or willingly permits, any act in disobedience to such order, he shall be
  
  punishable on conviction before a Magistrate with imprisonment for a term which
  
  may extend to three months, or with fine, or with both.