The Punjab Border Radio Services (Emergency Powers) Ordinance, 1947
(Punjab Ordinance No. I of 1947)
Published in The Pakistan Times on January 30, 1947
By an Ordinance promulgated on January 29, 1947, the Governor-General has assumed certain special powers for the better control of the dissemination of harmful matter in the Chief Commissioner’s Provinces.
The Ordinance empowers the administration to prohibit or regulate the dissemination of matter “which tends directly or indirectly to promote feeling of enmity or hatred between different classes of His Majesty’s subjects,” and to require documents containing such matter to be submitted for scrutiny before publication.
Power is also taken to regulate the entry of any undesirable matter emanating from outside, to forfeit to His Majesty any document containing prohibited matter, and to search premises or persons. Dissemination of any prohibited matter and contravention of any provision of the Ordinance or of any order made thereunder are cognizable offenses and punishable with imprisonment or fine, or both.
