Revocation
and replace-
pent of regulation 36.
Licence.
Period of validity,
Officer authorized
Fee.
to issue.
Public skating rink.
Public table tennis
saloon.
One year
$300
One year $300
Commissioner of Police.
·Commissioner of Police.
Timber store.
Undertaker of burials.
One year
One year
$100
$300
Director of Fire Services.
Chairman of the Urban
Council
Undertaker of burials
One year
(New Territories
Director of Urban
Services.
excluding New
Kowloon).
3250
3. Regulation 36 of the principal regulations is revoked and replaced by the following-
"Security
of place
of business.
36. Every money-changer shall, except when acting as such when on board a ship in accordance with a money. changer's (ships) licence, carry on his business behind a locked or permanently fixed grille or other protective material of a quality, design and construction approved by the licensing authority, and shall keep the space used for conducting his business locked during business hours.". The principal regulations are amended by the addition, after new regule regulation 58, of the following new regulation—
Addition of
4.
tion $BA.
"Minimum. dancing area. (L.N. 110/65),
58A. (1) After the commencement of the Miscellane- ous Licences (Amendment) Regulations 1965 no new public dance hall licence shall be issued or renewed, and after the expiry of a period of twenty-four months from the com- mencement of such regulations no public dance hall licence issued before the commencement of such regulations sha!! be renewed, in respect of any premises in which the total unobstructed dancing area available to persons resorting thereto for the purpose of dancing is less than five hundred square feet.
(2) It shall be a condition of every new public dance hall licence issued or renewed after the commencement of the aforesaid regulations and of every public dance hall licence renewed after the expiry of a period of twenty-four months from the commencement of the aforesaid regulations that at all times when the premises are open to the public for dancing the total unobstructed dancing area available to persons resorting thereto for the purpose of dancing is not less than five hundred square feet.".
5. Regulation 63 of the principal regulations is revoked and Revocation replaced by the following-
and replace. ment of
"Miolonc Ake for employers
quod pensons present in
63. (1) No person under the age of eighteen years regulation 63. shall be employed in the premises:
Provided that this regulation shall not apply in relation the premises. to any person who, immediately before the commencement (LN. 110/65). of the Miscellaneous Licences (Amendment) Regulations 1965, was employed in the premises and thereafter has at all times remained so employed if, but only if, such person was not, on the commencement of the said regulations. under the age of fifteen years.
(2) No person under the age of sixteen years shall be permitted to be present, at any time when the public are not excluded from the premises, in any part of the premises available to the public.".
6. The principal regulations are amended by the addition, after Addition of regulation 69, of the following new regulations--
"Prohibition
of partitions and screens.
69A. (1) The licenser shall not erect, place or have any partition or screen in any part of the premises available to the public.
(2) This regulation shall not come into operation until the expiry of a period of one month from the commence- (LN. 110/65) ment of the Miscellaneous Licences (Amendment) Regula-
tions 1965.
Requirements at to acting.
698. The seating facilities in the premises shall be by means of separate chairs (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, be so arranged as to ensure—
(a) that any person sitting in any chair has an un- obstructed view of the whole of the dancing area; and
(b) that no chair is obstructed by any pillar, plant or other thing (whether similar or not) calculated to, or having the effect of segregating any person using that chair from the full sight of any other person present.".
new regula- tious 69A
and 69B,
7. Regulation 78 of the principal regulations is amended by the Amendment deletion of paragraphs (c) and (d) and the substitution therefor of the of regula- following-
"(c) in respect of a public dance hall situated on a floor, other than the lowermost floor, of a building designed for domestic purposes, the licensee shall not permit to be
Hon 78.