At present in India, there is no focal legal organization or uniform enactment directing the promoting business. The Indian publicizing market all in all is managed and constrained by a non-legal body, the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI). Without uniform coordinated enactment, it is essential for publicists to guarantee that an ad is in consistence will all nearby and national promotion laws.
Statutory Laws
Supplementing the ASCI Code are Indian laws administering explicit media, explicit populaces, and explicit merchandise and enterprises. The most critical of these laws are recorded here.
Laws Governing Media
The Press Council Act 1978
Satellite Television Network Rules, 1994
Code for Commercial Advertising on Doordarshan and All India Radio
Standards for Journalist Conduct gave by the Press Council of India
Set of principles of the News Broadcasters Association
Laws Protecting Society and the Consumer
Images and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950
Youthful Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956
Organizations Act, 1956
Principles of Weight and Measures Act, 1976
Obscene Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986
Customer Protection Act, 1986
Industry-Specific Laws
The Drugs and Cosmetic Act, 1940
The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994
The Drugs and Magical Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954
The Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994
Supporters Act, 1961
Baby Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992
Protections and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992
The Prize Chits and Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978
Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003
Open Gambling Act, 1867, the Lotteries (Regulation) Act, 1998 and the Prize Competitions Act, 1955
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
Some Items and Services Can’t be Advertise
Tobacco
The Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 ("Tobacco Prohibition Act") disallows all immediate and circuitous advertising of tobacco items in all media.
Human Organs
The Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994: This law accommodates the guideline of expulsion, stockpiling and transplantation of human organs for remedial purposes and for the avoidance of business dealings in human organs. This law forbids any publicizing welcoming people to gracefully, offering to flexibly, any human organ for installment.
Magical Remedies
The Drugs and Magical Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 denies ad of supernatural cures of illnesses and clutters.
Services for Pre-Natal Determination of Sex
The Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 denies ads identifying with pre-natal assurance of sex.
Political Candidates, political stages, ideological groups, policy driven issues
The Representation of the People (Amendment) Act, 1996 has the accompanying arrangements identifying with commercials:
