THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 17, 1931.
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continuance of any disorder, or the prevention or discontinuance of any public entertainment offensive to good manners or decorum, or calculated to corrupt public morals, so requires, it shall be lawful for him, and for any police officer specially authorised by the Inspector General of Police in that behalf to order, in person, that any place of public entertainment be temporarily closed or vacated, and upon such order every member of any audience, and every other person whosoever, shall forthwith comply with such order in an orderly manner: Furthermore, it shall be lawful for the Inspector General of Police and for any police officer not under the rank of Assistant Superintendent or authorised as aforesaid, to take, in person or under his personal superintendence, such steps with a view to removal or mitigation of the cause of danger or offence, or with a view to the protection of any person or any property, or avoidance of any casualty, as may be considered expedient. No claim whatsoever shall be made against the Inspector General of Police or any police officer, or against any person assisting the police and under police direction in respect of any act done under this regulation.
(3) by the rescission of the paragraph at the end of regulation 48, which com-
mences Any police officer."
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(4) by the insertion, next after regulation 49 (on page 780), of the following
regulation,-
49A. Every person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations for which no other penalty is imposed, shall, upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
9th July, 1931.
Hong Kong.
N. L. SMITH,
Clerk of Councils.
No. 444.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 6 (1) of the Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Ordinance, 1919, Ordinance No. 22 of 1919, on the 9th day of July, 1931.
1. In all buildings in which a permanent stage is provided such stage shall be separated from the auditorium by a brick proscenium wall not less than 13 inches in thickness, and such wall shall be carried up the full thickness to a height of at least 3 feet above the roof, measured at right angles to the slope of the roof, and shall be carried down below the stage to a solid foundation.
2. Not more than three openings shall be formed in the proscenium wall, exclusive of the proscenium opening. No such opening, other than the proscenium opening, shall exceed 20 square feet in area, and at the lower part shall not be at a higher level than 3 feet above the floor of the stage. Such openings shall be closed with double teak or oak doors 2 inches thick hung in fire-resisting frames with a 1 inch lap, or with such other fire-resisting doors and frames as may be approved by the Building Authority. The doors shall be made self-closing and silent in action.