1947-HKRS28-8-14_Part02 — Page 5

HONG KONG

No. 19 OF 1947.

I assent.

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Governor.

25th April, 1947.

An Ordinance to provide for the exhibition of British Cinematograph Films and to restrict the advance booking of cinematograph films.

25th April, 1947.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof. as follows:-

PART I.

Preliminary.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the British Cinema hora Ziua. tograph Films Ordinance, 1947.

2. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise Interpreta requires

"British Films" means all cinematograph films registered in Great Britain as British films after 1940 under the Cinematograph Films Act, 1938.

"Controller" means the person appointed under the pro- visions of section 8 to be the Controller of the Exhibition of Cinematograph Filons;

"exhibitor" means the person or persons carrying on the business of exhibiting cinematograph films to the public at a cinema theatre to which this Ordinance applies;

“film” means a cinematograph film;

"quota period" means each consecutive and succeeding period of seventy days the first period of which shall be calculated from the coming into force of this Ordinance;

"serial films" or "series of films" means a serial cine- matograph film or series of cinematograph films consisting of a number of parts not exceeding thirteen each of which does not exceed two thousand feet in length, and which are intended to be exhibited on successive dates at intervale not exceeding fourteen days.

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