(1)No person shall without the previous permission of the Commissioner or the District Magistrate, as the case may be, and except in accordance with any conditions subject to which such permission is granted, hold or give, in any place which is likely to cause an assembly of persons, any performance in which or during which he buries himself underground, or seals himself in room or receptacle or other thing, in such manner as to prevent all access of air to him and for such time as would ordinarily result in death by suffocation.