Regulations.
Grant of use of city bell.
Conscut of Colonial Secretary.
4. (1) The Urban Council may make regulations to prescribe of provide for-
(a) the fixing of the days of the week and the hours of the day during which the city hall or any part thereof may be opened to members of the public;
(b) the fixing of fees to be paid for the use of all or any of the facilities provided in the city hall or admission by the public to any part of the city ball;
(c) the regulation of the conduct of persons admitted to the city hall or any part thereof and for the removal therefrom of any person who infringes any of the provisions of any regulation made pursuant to this section;
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(d) the general regulation and management of the city hall and
any facilities provided therein.
(2) Regulations made under this section may provide that contra- vention of specified provisions of such regulations shall be an offence and may provide penalties therefor not exceeding a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for three months.
(3) All regulations made by the Urban Council under this section shall be submitted to the Governor and shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.
5. Notwithstanding any power to make regulations contained in section 4. the Urban Council may grant, either gratuitously or for payment, to any person the exclusive use of any part of the city hall for such period or periods and for such purposes as the Urban Council may consider fit in each case; and admission by the public to any such part, the exclusive use of which has been so granted, shall be either with or without payment as may be directed either by the Urban Council or, with the consent of the Urban Council, by the person to whom the use thereof has been so granted.
6. (1) Notwithstanding any grant made under section 5, if any person uses any part of the city hall for the purpose of any public meeting without having obtained the prior consent thereto in writing. of the Colonial Secretary he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars and three months imprisonment.
(2) Any consent of the Colonial Secretary granted in pursuance of subsection (2) may be granted subject to such conditions or restric- tions as the Colonial Secretary may think fit,
(3) If, after the consent of the Colonial Secretary has been obtained for the holding of any public meeting to which the provisions of this section apply, any of the purposes of such meeting in respect
of which the consent was obtained is materially altered or any new purpose is added thereto or if any condition or restriction subject to which the consent was granted is not complied with, such meeting shall be deemed to be held without the consent of the Colonial Secretary as required by subsection (1).
(4) The provisions of this section are in addition to and not in derogation from the provisions of subsection (21) of section 3 of the Summary Offences Ordinance.
(Cup, 238)
7. (1) Any police officer, or any duly appointed manager of the Prevention city hall, having reasonable grounds to believe that any public meeting of unauthor has been convened or is about to be convened in contravention of any meetings in ized public of the provisions of section 6 forthwith may-
city ball.
(a) order any person who appears to him to be taking part in the
convening of such meeting, not to convene the meeting; or
(b) where such meeting has already been convened, order any
persons present at the meeting to disperse.
(2) Any person who refuses or fails to comply with any order given in pursuance of subsection (1)–
(a) may forthwith be removed from the precincts of the city
halt; and
(b) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and imprisonment for six
8,
months.
All money obtained by the Urban Council from the collection of fees under this Ordinance or otherwise derived from the management of the city hall shall be paid into the general revenue of the Colony.
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Receipts to be paid to
general
Devenue.
Every part of the city hall which from time to time the public Certain parts have access, whether on payment or otherwise, shall, during any such of the city time, be deemed to be public place for the purpose of the Summary public places. Offences Ordinance,
ball to be
(Cup. 228).
companies
10. (1) Where any person by whom an offence under this Liability in Ordinance has been committed is a company, every director and every the case of officer concerned in the management of the company shall be guilty or associa of the like offence unless he proves that the act constituting the offence tions. took place without his knowledge or consent,
(2) Where any offence is committed under this Ordinance by any person purporting to act in the name of any association, every officer of such association shall be guilty of the like offence unless he proves that the act constituting the offence took place without his knowledge or consent.