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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY
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(3) preventing any attempt to tamper with the loyalty of persons in, or to dissuade (otherwise than with advice given in good faith to the person dissuaded for his benefit or that of any member of his family or any of his dependents) persons from entering, the service of the Government;
(4) preventing or prohibiting anything likely to assist the enemy or to prejudice the successful conduct of military operations or civil defence including-
(a) communications with the enemy or agents of the enemy;
(b) acquisition, possession without lawful authority or excuse and publication of information likely to assist the enemy;
(c) contribution to, participation or assistance in, the floating of loans raised by or on behalf of the enemy;
(d) advance of money to, or contracts or commercial dealings with the enemy, enemy subjects or persons residing, carrying on business, or being, in enemy territory; and
(e) acts, publications or communications prejudicial to civil defence or military operations.
(5) preventing the spreading without lawful authority or excuse of false reports or the prosecution of any purpose, likely to cause disaffection, or alarm, or to prejudice India's relations with foreign powers or to prejudice maintenance of peaceful conditions in any area or part of India, or to promote feelings of ill-will, enmity or hatred between different classes of the people of India;
(6) requiring the publication of news and information;
(7) (a) prohibiting the printing or publishing of any news- paper, news-sheet, book or other document containing matters prejudicial to the defence of India and civil defence, the public safety, the maintenance of public order, the efficient conduct of military operations or the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community;
(b) demanding security from any press used for the purpose of printing or publishing, and forfeiting the copies of, any news- paper, news-sheet, book or other document containing any of the matters referred to in sub-clause (a);
(c) forfeiture of such security and the circumstances in which and the authority by whom such forfeiture may be ordered;