45. No person
| (a) shall, at any time from the date of publication of the Proclamation in respect of a Referendum and ending on the day immediately following the date en which the result of the poll taken at such Referendum is declared, conduct, hold or take part in any procession, other than a procession on May 1 in the year, or any procession for religious or social purposes ; or |
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| (b) shall, at any procession held or conducted during the period referred to in paragraph (a), do any act or thing calculated to affect the result of the Referendum referred to in the said paragraph (a) . |
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Every person who contravenes any of the preceding provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, or to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding one month, or to both such fine and imprisonment. |
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