WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1988
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CONTROL ON MAJORITY OF PRIVATE BILLIARD CLUBS NECESSARY
SHOULD
BE
EXTENDED
ΤΟ
AS
IN REALITY OPERATE
AND WELI ARE, THE
THE GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS THAT CONTROL THE MAJORITY OF PRIVATE BILLIARD CLUBS WHICH PUBLIC BILLIARD SALOONS, THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH HON JOHN CHAMBERS, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY),
SAID
AND MUNICIPAL
WAS EXTENSION FROM THE LAW
HEALTH MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988, MR CHAMBERS
THE CONSIDERED NECESSARY FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PUBLIC, AND ORDER, PUBLIC HEALTH, FIRE AND STRUCTURAL SAFETY POINTS OF VIEW.
THE BILLIARD OPERATED AS DE
MR CHAMBERS EXPLAINED THAT UNDER THE PRESENT PROVISIONS OF
AND MUNICIPAL PUBLIC HEALTH
SERVICES
PRIVATE ORDINANCE, CLUBS WERE NOT REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED ALTHOUGH MANY FACTO PUBLIC BILLIARD SALOONS.
THE BILL
REPLACED THE
PRESENT DEFINITION "PUBLIC BILLIARD "BILLIARD ESTABLISHMENT"
WHICH
MEANT
SALOON" WITH A NEW DEFINITION ANY PLACE USED FOR PLAYING BILLIARDS OR OTHER SIMILAR GAMES.
TO
MAKE
TO BILLIARD ESTABLISHMENT
IT ALSO EXEMPTED GENUINE PRIVATE HOMES FROM THE REQUIREMENT
THE OBTAIN A
AND EMPOWERED LICENCE;
MUNICIPAL COUNCILS BY-LAWS EXEMPTING ANY CLASS OR DESCRIPTION OF FROM LICENSING.
MUNICIPAL MR CHAMBERS SAID THE PROPOSALS AND HAD AGREED WITH THE ESTABLISHMENTS WITH LESS THAN FOUR TABLES, WHICH BE COMMERCIALLY VIABLE, SHOULD BE EXEMPTED FROM LICENSING.
COUNCILS HAD ENDORSED THESE BILLIARD ADMINISTRATION THAT
WOULD NORMALLY NOT
AND RESPECT
THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE HAD ALSO SUPPORTED THE PROPOSALS MADE SOME SUGGESTIONS CONCERNING THE AGE AND HOURS OF PLAY IN OF YOUNG PERSONS IN BILLIARD ESTABLISHMENTS, HE SAID.
PLACES BY-LAWS LICENSING THE WAS INTENDED TO
MR CHAMBERS SAID THE MUNICIPAL COUNCILS WOULD AMEND THE OF AMUSEMENT
AND (URBAN COUNCIL)
(REGIONAL COUNCIL) RESPECTIVELY AFTER THE BILL WAS ENACTED TO EXEMPT FROM CLASS OR DESCRIPTION OF BILLIARD ESTABLISHMENT THAT BE EXEMPTED.
A 12-MONTH THERE WOULD BE
GRACE PERIOD STARTING FROM THE CLUB OPERATORS ENACTMENT OF THE AMENDMENT BY-LAWS TO ENABLE EXISTING
THEIR BUSINESSES, AFTER WHHH TO APPLY FOR A LICENCE OR TO WIND UP THE AMENDMENT BILL WOULD BE BROUGHT INTO EFFECT.
"THE TWO COUNCILS WILL ALSO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW
AGES AND HOURS CONCERNING
OR PLAY LICENSING CONDITIONS
IN PREMISES, PARTICULARLY IN RESPECT OF YOUNG PERSONS,
MADE AND SUGGESTIONS COMMENTS
BY THE FIGHT CRIME
MR CHAMBERS ADDED.
THE
ON SUCHI THE LIGHT OF COMMITTEE,
+
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.
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