B 22
CAP. 172]
Places of Public Entertainment Regulations
[1986 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
exemptions:
G.N.A. 87/52.
G.N.A. 87/52.
42 of 1961, s. 2.
L.N. 131/63.
penalty. G.N.A. 87/52.
Stage floors, flies, gridirons and
scenery;
L.N. 63/77.
access to flies, gridirons, etc.
Scenery.
Storage of scenery,
etc.
Dressing-rooms and staff rooms.
(2) Subject as provided in this paragraph this regulation shall apply to all structures as aforesaid, whether already erected or hereafter to be erected:
Provided that it shall be lawful for the Building Authority, after consultation with the Director of Fire Services, to exempt any structure for such period or periods as he may think fit from all or any of the provisions of this regulation: any such exemption may be subject to such conditions as the Building Authority may see fit to impose.
(3) The owner and the licensee of any structure as aforesaid in respect of which any failure to comply with any provision of this regulation is proved to exist or to continue shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of $1,000.
41. (1) Stage floors shall be of hardwood not less than 32 mm thick with hardwood or fire-resisting supports and shall be sufficiently strong for any type of performance which is likely to be given.
(2) Flies, including lighting flies and perches and gridirons, shall be of fire-resisting material and adequate means of escape direct to the open air shall be provided therefrom.
(3) Scenery shall be counterweighted and hung on wire ropes as far as practicable. Counterweights of scenery shall be guarded, and where possible shall be carried to the walls and cased in.
(4) Access to flies, gridirons, electricians' perches and other raised platforms, other than lighting perches not more than 1.2 m above or below a platform or fly to which suitable access is provided, shall be by means of step-ladders with handrails.
42. Except with the consent in writing of the licensing authority and in accordance with any conditions of such consent, scenery or stage properties shall not be kept or used on any platform or in any other part of premises which are not provided with a safety curtain of a pattern approved by the licensing authority.
43. (1) Scenery or properties shall not be kept or used in the stage basement or in any part of premises other than on the stage or in the approved scene or property store.
(2) The stage shall not in any circumstances be congested with scenery or properties, or the exits therefrom obstructed during performances.
(3) Except with the consent in writing of the licensing authority and subject to the conditions of such consent, scenery or properties shall not be placed on the auditorium side of the safety curtain.
44. (1) Such dressing-room and staff-room accommodation for performers, musicians and staff shall be provided for both sexes as the licensing authority may consider necessary, having regard to