(1) Prior restrictions shall not be imposed on the publication and transmission of any news, editorial, article, composition or any other textual, audio, audio-visual material, or the transmission or printing of information by any means including electronic publication, broadcasting and printing. But the sovereignty, geographical integrity, nationality or good relations between Nepal's federal units or the good relations between different castes, castes, religions or sects, treason, contempt of court or contempt of court or incitement to commit crime or acts contrary to public decency, morals It shall not be considered as a prohibition to enact a law that imposes a reasonable ban on the act of doing, disregarding labor and encouraging caste untouchability and gender discrimination.
(2) printing or publishing, broadcasting or printing any news, article, editorial, composition, information or any other material through any audio, audio-visual or electronic device or from a printing press, publishing, broadcasting or printing such material on radio, television, online or Any other type of digital or electronic device, print or other media will not be closed, confiscated or deregistered or such material confiscated. But nothing written in this clause shall be deemed to restrict the making of laws to regulate radio, television, online or any other kind of digital or electronic equipment, printing press or other means of communication.
(3) Except in accordance with the law, no means of communication including printing, electronic transmission and telephone shall be blocked.