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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 3, 1934.
Exemptions.
Penalty,
Stage floor, flies, grid- iron and
scenery.
Access to flies, grid-iron.
Scenery.
Storage of
scenery, etc.
(15) The sashes and other moving parts of the lantern light shall be tested periodically to ensure their being in efficient working order. There shall be no obstruction to the upward flow of air from the stage to the ventilators.
(16) Subject as provided in this paragraph regulation 38 shall apply to all buildings as aforesaid, whether already erected or hereafter to be erected: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Building Authority, after consultation with the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade, to exempt any build- ing for such period or periods as he may think fit, from all or any of the provisions of such regulations: Any such ex- emption may be subject to such conditions as the Building Authority may see fit to impose: Provided further that, as regards all buildings erected before the 31st day of December, 1931, other than the buildings named in Government Notifica- tion No. 665, published in the Gazette of the 21st October, 1932, exemption shall be deemed to have been granted as aforesaid until the expiration of not less than six months' notice in writing, signed by the Building Authority, posted on the building and published in the Gazette, that such building is not exempt from the said provisions or such of them as may be specified in the notice.
(17) The owner and the licensee of any building as afore- said in respect of which any failure to comply with any pro- vision of this regulation 38 shall be proved to exist or to continue shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
39.-(1) The stage floor shall be of hardwood not less than 14 inches thick with hard wood or fire-resisting supports and shall be sufficiently strong for any type of performance which is likely to be given.
(2) The flies. including the lighting flies and perches and gridiron, shall be of fire-resisting material and adequate means of escape direct to the open air shall be provided therefrom.
(3) The scenery shall be counterweighted and hung on wire ropes so far as practicable Counterweights of scenery shall be guarded, and where possible shall be carried to the
walls and cased in.
(4) Access to the flies, grid-iron, electricians' perches and other raised platforms, other than lighting perches not more than 4 feet above or below a platform or fly to which suitable access is provided, shall be provided by means of step-ladders with handrails.
40. Except with the consent in writing of the Licensing Authority and in accordance with any conditions of such con- sent, scenery or stage properties shall not be kept or used on the platform or in any other part of premises which are not provided with a safety curtain of a pattern approved by the Licensing Authority.
41.-(1) Scenery or properties shall not be kept or used in the stage basement or in any part of the premises other than on the stage or in the approved scene or property store.
(2) The stage shall not in any circumstances be congested with scenery or properties, or the exits therefrom obstructed during performances.
(3) Except with the consent in writing of the Licensing Authority and subject to the conditions of such consent, scenery or properties shall not be placed on the auditorium side of the safety curtain.