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Sec. 1]
THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY
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(43) prohibiting or regulating meetings, assemblies, fairs and processions;
(44) preventing or controlling any use of uniforms, whether official or otherwise, flags, official decorations like medals, badges and other insignia and anything similar thereto, where such use is calculated to deceive or to prejudice the public safety, the maintenance of public order, the defence of India and civil defence;
(45) ensuring the accuracy of any report or declaration legally required of any person;
(46) preventing the unauthorized change of names;
(47) preventing anything likely to cause misapprehension in respect of the identity of any official person, official document or official property or in respect of the identity of any person, document or property purporting to be, or resembling, an official person, official document or official property;
(48) the precautionary measures which the Government or any department thereof or any local authority, members of police forces and fire brigades and members of any other service or authority employed primarily for purposes other than civil defence purposes should be required to take within their respective jurisdictions or with respect to any personnel employed by them;
(49) the seizure and custody or destruction of injured, unclaimed or dangerous animals;
(50) the salvage of damaged buildings and property and disposal of the dead;
(51) the evacuation of areas and the removal of property or animals therefrom;
(52) the accommodation in any area of persons evacuated from another area and the regulation of the conduct of evacuated persons accommodated in such area;
(53) the billeting of evacuated persons or persons authorised to exercise functions under this Act;
(54) the instruction of members of the public in civil defence and their equipment for purposes of civil defence;
(55) the entry into, and search of, any place reasonably suspected of being used for any purpose prejudicial to the public safety or interest, to the defence of India and civil defence or to the efficient conduct of military operations, and for the seizure and disposal of anything found there and reasonably suspected of being used for such purpose;
913 G of I Ex.—2.