1985 Ed.]

Miscellaneous Licences Regulations

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[Subsidiary]

(a) any profanity or impropriety of language;

(b) any indecency of dress, dance or gesture;

(c) any offensive personalities or representations of living persons or anything calculated to produce riot or breach of the peace;

(d) any drunkenness or other disorderly conduct;

(e) any unlawful game; or

(f) any persons of notoriously bad character to assemble and meet together.

69. The premises shall be lighted throughout by gas or electricity from the mains of a public utility company, and, except by and in accordance with the special permission of the licensing authority, no candle, oil lamp or other form of illumination shall be used therein.

69A. The licensee shall not erect, place or have any partition or screen in any part of the premises available to the public.

69B. (1) The seating facilities in the premises shall, except as otherwise permitted in paragraph (2), be by means of separate chairs only (each such chair designed to accommodate one person only) and shall, at all times when the premises are open to the public for the purpose of dancing, so be arranged as to ensure that at least one-half of the dancing area can be seen from every chair.

(2) The seating facilities in the premises when the premises are open to the public for the purpose of dancing may consist of or include seats designed to accommodate more than one person but only if-

(a) every such seat is in a position outward-facing against a wall; and

(b) at least one-half of the dancing area can be seen from every sitting place on every such seat; and

(c) no such seat is fitted with anything, other than arm-rests, calculated to or having the effect of segregating any person using that sofa or seat from any other person using the same or any other sofa or seat.

70. The licensing authority may require the removal of, and the licensee shall immediately remove, anything in the premises which in the opinion of the licensing authority is a fire danger.

71. (1) Every person licensed to keep a public dance hall shall provide and maintain on the premises to the satisfaction of the Director of Fire Services--

(a) fire appliances adequate for the protection of the premises, at all times free from obstruction and ready for use;

Lighting.

Prohibition of partitions and screens.

Requirements as to seating. L.N. 155/65.

Removal of fire danger.

Fire appliances and escape. L.N. 391/84.

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