Section 53

Prohibition to sell tickets, etc.

10[34A.(1) No person shall sell or offer for sale any ticket once issued for admission as spectator to any place of entertainment at a price higher than the price at which such ticket was originally issued.

(2)

Whoever contravenes the provision of sub-section

(1)

shall be liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or to a fine which may extend to one hundred taka or to both.

(3)

Any police-officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector or Sergeant may arrest without warrant any person committing an offence under sub-section (1).]

Explanation

Explanation.In this section, the word “entertainment" means any exhibition, performance, amusement, game or sports to which persons are admitted as spectators on production of tickets and a "place of entertainment" shall be construed accordingly.