3.4 Advertising, Cinemas

Advertising — the Advertisement (Regulation) Act, 2019 B.S. (1963) — the oldest frame: The advertisement's statutory floor: the misleading and the obscene barred; the product bans (the drugs-and-vice lists); The sector codes: broadcasting's advertising directives — time and content limits (the children's-hour protections); The consumer-protection link: false advertising's liability under the Consumer Protection Act 2075 (the false claim as the consumer's remedy, not only the media's offence); The commercial-speech position: advertising as expression's lesser-protected form (the restriction's wider tolerance — the constitutional doctrine's honest note). Cinemas — the Motion Picture (Production, Exhibition and Distribution) Act, 2025 B.S. (1969): The film certification regime: the Film Development Board's certification of films for exhibition — cuts and ratings (the censor-or-classification debate: the "U/A" world vs. the scissors); The cinema hall's exhibition licensing; The content standards' links: obscenity (the Criminal Code's offences), public order; The OTT challenge: the streaming platform's regulation — the directive-and-bill developments (the honest note: the frame is still forming).