https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157255 The licensing scheme under the Punjab Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1952 was treated as regulatory in character, and the authority's power under Section 5 read with Section 9, Rule 4 and licence condition 4A was held to extend to classifying cinema seats and fixing admission rates as incidental terms necessary for orderly exhibition. That regulatory control was upheld as a reasonable restriction on the business right under Article 19(1)(g), because it served the public interest and prevented arbitrary pricing while promoting fair access to cinema tickets. The result was that seat classification and admission-rate fixation were within lawful regulatory power and did not infringe the Constitution. en-us Fri, 06 Dec 1991 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:04:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157255 The licensing scheme under the Punjab Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1952 was treated as regulatory in character, and the authority's power under Section 5 read with Section 9, Rule 4 and licence condition 4A was held to extend to classifying cinema seats and fixing admission rates as incidental terms necessary for orderly exhibition. That regulatory control was upheld as a reasonable restriction on the business right under Article 19(1)(g), because it served the public interest and prevented arbitrary pricing while promoting fair access to cinema tickets. The result was that seat classification and admission-rate fixation were within lawful regulatory power and did not infringe the Constitution. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 06 Dec 1991 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=157255