Citation and commencement,
Application.
Interpretation.
Periods during which pleasure grounds may be closed to the public.
Admission charges.
Schedule
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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE. (Chapter 132).
PLEASURE GROUNDS (NEW TERRITORIES) REGULATIONS 1971.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 109 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-
1. These regulations may be cited as the Pleasure Grounds (New Territories) Regulations 1971, and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazetre.
2. These regulations apply to the New Territories only.
3. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-
"Director" means the Director of Urban Services:
"keeper" means any person appointed under section (11 of the
Ordinance to be a keeper of a public pleasure ground; "pleasure ground” means any public pleasure ground specified in the Fourth Schedule to the Ordinance, not being a bathing beach, which is situated in the New Territories.
4. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), every pleasure ground shall be open to the public at all times.
(2) A pleasure ground or any part thereof shall be closed to the public between such hours and on such days as the Director may by order specify.
(3) Any order made under paragraph (2) shall be posted conspicuously at each entrance of the pleasure ground concerned.
5. (1) Every member of the public on satering any part of any pleasure ground which is being used by the Director for holding an entertainment shall pay such fee as the Director may determine in relation to that entertainment.
(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (3), where, under subsection (2) of section 108 of the Ordinance, the exclusive use of any pleasure ground or part thereof or of any facilities provided therein is allocated to any person, the fee shall be--
(a) if no fee is charged to members of the public to view the activity carried on in the pleasure ground, the appro- priate fee specified in Part I of the Schedule;
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(b) if an admission fee is charged to members of the public
to view the activity carried on-
() in a pleasure ground specified in Part II of the Schedule, a fee of ten per cent of the gross receipts or the sum of one hundred dollars whichever is the greater. (ii) in a pleasure ground other than a pleasure ground specified in Part II of the Schedule, a fee of ten per cent of the gross receipts or the sum of fifty dollars whichever is the greater.
(3) The fee payable under sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) by-
(a) a religious, charitable or welfare organization recom- mended by the District Commissioner. New Territories;
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(b) an educational institution recommended by the Director
of Education.
shall be one per cent of the gross receipts or the sum of fifty dollars whichever is the greater.
(4) The Director may reduce, waive or remit any fee payable under paragraph (2) or (3),
(5) For the purposes of the Schedule-
"cheap rate period" means-
(a) during summer time, the period from 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. on every day which is not a Saturday or a general holiday; and
(b) outside summer time, the period from 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. on every day which is not a Saturday or a general boliday:
"ordinary period" means any period other than a cheap rale period.
Persons not to enter closed pleasure
6. No person shall enter or remain in any pleasure ground during any period when the pleasure ground is closed to the public by an order made under regulation 4, unless duly authorized by grounds. the keeper of the pleasure ground or by any other public officer having authority in that behalf.
7. No person while in any pleasure ground shall behave otherwise than in an orderly and decent manner or be otherwise than properly clothed.
General
behaviour.
8.
No person shall, in any pleasure ground-
Protection of properly.
(a)
wilfully or negligently deface, injure, soil or defile any wall or any fence in or enclosing the pleasure ground or