THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 12, 1930. 651
(2) No person, being the holder of a Government ticket, or of a ticket to which an adhesive stamp is allixed, issued for the purpose of authorising admis- sion to an entertainment, shall deface, cut, tear or diminish the ticket or stamp, as the case may be.
(3) The proprietor shall collect the tickets of all persons about to be admitted to the entertainment with a Government ticket or a ticket bearing an ad- hesive stamp. and every person about to be so ad- mitted with such a ticket shall immediately before admission to the entertainment deliver the ticket to the person who is collecting the tickets.
(4) When a ticket is so collected the proprietor shall forthwith delace the stamp on the ticket by tearing the ticket into two portions across the stamp, and shall return one portion of the ticket to the person to be admitted to the entertainment, and shall retain and keep until removal by a public officer or until mid-day on the day following the conclusion of the entertainment the other portion thereof.
(5) The proprietor shall keep the portions of tickets used each day separate from those used on previous days.
8.—(1) The proprietor shall not issue any Govern- No Govern- ment ticket purporting or intended to authorise the ment ticket admission of more than one person and shall not to be used admit to the entertainment more than one person by
admitting
virtue of one Government ticket.
(2) No person shall make use of one Government ticket for the purpose of obtaining, or attempting to obtain, admission to an entertainment for himself together with any other person.
more than one person.
than Govern-
9.-(1) Where the proprietor issues any ticket pur- Provisions porting or intended to authorise the admission to the as to a entertainment of more than one person, he shall ticket (other cause the ticket to be clearly marked with the number ment ticket) of persons so authorised to be admitted and the total used for price charged for the ticket, and he shall not admit admitting to the entertainment by virtue of that ticket a greater more than number of persons than that marked on the ticket.
(2) For the purposes of calculating the duty charge- able in such a case there shall be deemed to be as many payments for admission as there are persons authorised to be admitted under the ticket, and each of those payments shall be deemed to be equal in amount to the total price charged for the ticket divided by the total number of the persons so au- thorised.
one person.
10.-(1) Where the proprietor issues tickets in the Provisions form of a book or sheet, he shall print on each such as to books ticket either the price of admission chargeable in or sheets of
tickets. respect of a single ticket, or the number of tickets in the book or sheet together with the total sum paid therefor,
(2) Unless the proprietor has made arrangements approved by the Treasurer for furnishing returns of payments for admission and has given security to his satisfaction for payment of the duty, he shall before issuing any such book or sheet of tickets as aforesaid, either affix to each ticket in such book or sheet an adhesive stamp appropriate to the sum pay- able in respect of a single ticket, or affix to the cover of the book or the principal part of the sheet an ad- hesive stamp or stamps equal to the aggregate amount of duty payable in respect of all the tickets in the book or sheet.