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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 31, 1919.
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"Public Entertainment means any entertain- ment, as above defined, to which the general public are admitted with or without payment
for admission.
3. It shall not be lawful for any person to keep or Licences for use any permanent or temporary building or matshed Places of for any public entertainment without a licence to be Public En- granted as hereinafter provided, under a penalty not tertainment. exceeding 200 dollars for every day on which such building or matshed shall have been so kept or used for the purpose aforesaid.
graph dis- plays.
4.-(1.) No person shall advertise, present, or carry Permits on any cinematograph display to which the public are required for invited, or cause any such display to be advertised, cinemato- presented, or carried on, except under a permit in writing from the Captain Superintendent of Police, who shall have full discretion to either grant or withhold or cancel the same, and, in the case of a cinematograph display at a Chinese theatre to which the public are invited, such person must also obtain a permit in writing for such performance from the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
(2.) No such permit by the Captain Superintendent Censoring of Police shall be given until the film or films to be used of films and at such display and the poster or posters in connection posters. therewith shall have been censored and passed in accord- ance with such regulations as may be made for the purpose under this Ordinance, and any film or poster, when once censored and passed as aforesaid, shall not be altered or added to in any way whatsoever without a fresh censoring and passing.
5. Any person who shall advertise, present, or carry Penalty for on any cinematograph display to which the public are presenting admitted, or cause the same to be advertised, presented cinemas or carried on without the permit of the Captain Superin- without permit. tendent of Police shall for every such offence be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars.
6.-(a.) The Governor in Council may make regu- Power to lations for all or any of the following purposes :—
make regu- lations for
(1.) The mode of application for licences for any Places of
building, whether permanent or temporary, Public En- or for any matshed, to be used for any public tertainment. entertainment, and the issue of such licences to such person, for such period of time and during such hours as may be respectively determined in every such licence.
(2.) The cancellation of any such licence. (3.) Prescribing the payment of fees in respect
of all or any of such licences.
(4.) Prescribing the materials of which any such licensed building or matshed is to be constructed, and regulating the mode of building, staircases, corridors, gangways, vestibules, seating accommodation, entrances, exits, doors and fastenings, and all other matters appertaining to the same. (5.) Requiring the exercise of all such measures as may be prescribed in any such regulation against overcrowding, and for the control and prevention of fire in any such building or matshed, and for the maintenance of the sanitary condition of such building or matshed.
(6.) The maintenance of peace and good order in
any such building or matshed.
(7.) The entry and inspection of any such build- ing or matshed at any time by the Captain Superintendent of Police, and the Building Authority, or any other officer authorised by- the Governor in that behalf.
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