Places of Public Entertainment.
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boxes outside the auditorium, and if in the building, in a place approved by the licensing authority.
160. A copy of such of the regulations in this Part as apply when a portable projector is used shall be exhibited in any room or place in which a portable projector is used for the purposes of an exhibition.
PART III.
OTHER PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT IN THE ISLAND OF Hong Kong, Kowloon and NEW KOWLOON.
161. (1) Any person who desires to use any building, mat-shed, tent or other structure to which this Part applies, hereinafter referred to as "the place", for a public entertainment shall send in an application to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs which shall contain the following information-
(a) the names, descriptions and addresses of the person or persons making the application; and
(b) the character of the entertainment for which the place is proposed to be used and the locality of the place.
If the Secretary for Chinese Affairs approves of such application he shall send it to the Commissioner of Police for his approval, who, if he approves of the application, shall send it to the building authority who shall, unless owing to special circumstances he chooses to grant any modification under regulation 171, be supplied by the applicant with plans and section to a scale of not less than 1/20 of an inch to a foot together with a block plan showing the position of the place in relation to adjoining buildings and public streets with such completeness as the building authority may require. Such plans shall be amended in any particular required by the building authority and shall be retained by him and shall show the number of persons to be accommodated in the various parts respectively of the place and also the widths of all staircases, corridors, gangways and doorways. Printed copies of plans and sections suitable for submission in accordance with this requirement may be obtained from the office of the building authority on payment of a fee of $5 in each case.
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