A.D. 1888.]
REGULATION OF CHINESE,
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(2.) This section shall not apply to any scaffolding of wood or bamboo necessary for the removal of a dead body, if such scaffolding is removed within forty-eight hours from the time of its erection.
25. Except as by this Ordinance provided, no person shall discharge, kindle, or let off any firework in the City of Victoria, or within three hundred feet of the praya wall, or in such other places or districts as may from time to time be specified by any regulation made by the Governor-in-Council and published in The Gazette, or attempt to do so.
Provisions as to fireworks.
28. No person shall advertise, notify, or carry on any Chinese theatrical performance of a public nature unless an abstract of the plot or nature of such performance has first been furnished to the Registrar General, who may, in his discretion, issue a permit for such performance, without which permit no such performance shall be advertised, notified, or carried on.
Provisions as to Chinese theatricals.
27.-(1.) The Governor may from time to time authorize the issue of permits for-
(a.) processions or music in the City of Victoria, or in such other places or districts as may from time to time be specified by any regulation made by the Governor-in-Council and published in The Gazette, (other than funeral or marriage processions), at suitable hours and under suitable conditions;
(b.) the erection in the City of Victoria, or in such other places or districts as may from time to time be specified by any regulation made by the Governor-in-Council and published in The Gazette, or in villages, of cloth-covered sheds or decorations in suitable places, with proper precautions for safety and for the extinction of fire:
(c.) the discharge of fireworks in suitable places in or near the City of Victoria, or in such other places or districts as may from time to time be specified by any regulation made by the Governor-in-Council and published in The Gazette;
(d.) Chinese public theatrical performances.
(2.) All such permits shall be issued in such manner and on such conditions as the Governor may direct.
(3.) The Governor may at any time cancel or withdraw any such permit.
28.(1.) Permits for processions, theatricals, and other such acts as are to be joined in by a number of persons shall be issued to one person only by name, the words "and others" being added after such person's name.
(2.) The person so named shall be responsible for the due observance of all the conditions of the permit, and shall, if so required, furnish such security as may be required.