GOVERNMENT OF MAHARASHTRA
LAW AND JUDICIARY DEPARTMENT

MAHARASHTRA ACT No. XXXII
OF 1969.

THE  MAHARASHTRA  STATE  LEGISLATURE
PROCEEDINGS  (PROTECTION OF
PUBLICATION) ACT, 1969.

(As modified upto the 11th June 2013)

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THE  MAHARASHTRA  STATE  LEGISLATURE  PROCEEDINGS
(PROTECTION  OF  PUBLICATION)  ACT,  1969.

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CONTENTS

PREAMBLE.

SECTIONS.

1. Short title and extent.

2. Definition.

3. Publication of reports of Legislature proceedings privileged.

4. Act also to apply to Legislature proceedings broadcast by wireless telegraphy.

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MAHARASHTRA ACT No. XXXII OF 1969.1

[THE MAHARASHTRA STATE  LEGISLATURE  PROCEEDINGS
(PROTECTION OF PUBLICATION)  ACT, 1969.]

[This Act  received  the  assent  of  the  Vice-President  acting  as  the  President,  on  the
5th  June  1969;  assent  was  first  published  in  Maharashtra  Government  Gazette,
Extraordinary,  Part  IV,  on  the  13th  June  1969]

An  Act  to  protect  the  publication  of  reports  of  proceedings  of  the
  Maharashtra  State  Legislature.

WHEREAS it is expedient  to protect the publication of reports of proceedings
of the Maharashtra State Legislature;  It is hereby enacted in the Twentieth Year of
the Republic of India as follows :––

1.

(1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra State Legislature Proceedings

(Protection of Publication) Act, 1969.

Short  title
and    extent.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Maharashtra.

2.

In  this Act, “newspaper” means any printed periodical work (including
daily  newspaper)  containing  public  news  or  comments  on  public  news,  and
includes a news agency supplying material for publications in a newspaper.

Definition.

3.

(1) Save  as  otherwise  provided  in  sub-section  (2),  no  person  shall  be
liable to any proceedings, civil or criminal, in any court in respect of the publication
in a newspaper of a substantially true report of any proceedings of either House of
the Maharashtra State Legislature, unless the publication is proved to have been
made with malice.

Publication
of  reports  of
Legislature
proceedings
privileged.

(2) Nothing  in  sub-section  (1)  shall  be  construed  as  protecting  the

publication of any matter, the publication of which is not for the public good.

4. This Act shall apply in relation to reports or matters broadcast by means
of wireless telegraphy as a part of any programme or service provided by means of
a broadcasting station as it applies in relation to reports or matters published in
a newspaper.

Act  also  to
apply  to
Legislature
proceedings
broadcast
by wireless
telegraphy.

1For  Statement  of  objects  and  Reasons,  see  Maharashtra  Government  Gazette,  1968,

Part  V,  page  23.

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