Section 4

Any person who within a prohibited place has any apparatus for taking or making photographs in his possession without a permit in writing in that behalf signed by the competent authority shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $200:Provided that it shall not be an offence under this section for any person residing within any prohibited place to possess any such apparatus within that place without a permit.

Any such apparatus in respect of which an offence has been or is suspected of having been committed may be seized by any person duly authorised in that behalf by the competent authority for such prohibited place and any plate or film in or belonging to such apparatus may also be seized and may be subjected to such process of development as the competent authority may direct either generally or in any particular case.

In this section, “competent authority” means the competent authority referred to in section 3.