THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 22, 1910.
HONGKONG.
No. 17 or 1910.
An Ordinance to amend the Theatres and Public
Performances Regulation Ordinance, 1908.
LS
F. H. MAY,
Officer Administering the Government,
[22nd July, 1910.]
Short title.
Reprints.
New sections 4 and 5.
Cine- matograph displays subject to permit of Registrar General.
Penalty for presenting
eine-
matography
displays without
permit of Registrar General.
Re-number-
ing of sec-
tions 4 to 6
of the
Principal Ordinance.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Commeil thereof, as follows:--
1. This Ordinance may be cited as "the Theatres and. Public Performances Regulation Amendment Ordinance, 1910," and shall be read and construed as one with the Theatres and Public Performances Regulation Ordinance, 1908, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance ”), and any copy of the Principal Ordinavée printed after the commencement of this Ordinance may be printed with the amendments mande by this Ordinance.
2. The following new sections to be numbered 4 and 5 respectively are hereby inserted in the Principal Ordin-
ance :-
"d. No person shall advertise, present or carry on any cinematograph display of a public nature or cause the same to be advertised, presented or carried on unless a description of every scene intended to be presented or produced at such display has been first furnished to the Registrar General who may in his discretion issue a permit for the presentation of such display, without which permit no such display shall be advertised, presented or carried on. 5. Any person who shall advertise, present or carry any cinematograph display of a public nature or cause the same to be advertised, pre- sented or carried on without the permit of the Registrar General shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars to be recovered summarily be- fore a Magistrate."
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3. Sections 4 to 6 inclusive of the Principal Ordinance are hereby re-numbered with the numbers 6 to 8 respect- ively.
Passed the Legislative Concil of Hongkong, this 21st day of July, 1910.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 22nd day of July, 1910.
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A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary.
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