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Revocation

of regula tion 79.

Addition of

new regula- tion 108A.

Revocation

present on the premises at any time when the premises are open to the public for the purpose of dancing a greater number of persons (including dancing partners and other persons employed by the licensee) than one person per ten square feet of the unobstructed dancing area which is available to persons resorting thereto for the purpose of dancing:".

8. Regulation 79 of the principal regulations is revoked.

9. The principal regulations are amended by the addition, after regulation 108, of the following new regulation-

**Minimum dancing area. (L.N. 110/65).

108A. (1) After the commencement of the Miscella neous Licences (Amendment) Regulations 1965, no dancing school licence shall be issued or renewed in respect of any premises in which the total unobstructed dancing area avail- able to persons resorting thereto for the purpose of receiving instruction in dancing is less than five hundred square feet. or the total seating area is more than one-third of the dancing area.

(2) It shall be a condition of every such licence issued or renewed after the commencement of the aforesaid regula- tions that at all times when the premises are open for instruction in dancing the total unobstructed dancing area available to persons resorting thereto for the purpose of receiving instruction in dancing is not less than five hundred square feet and the total seating area is not more than one-third of the dancing area.”.

10. (1) Regulation 114 of the principal regulations is revoked and replace and replaced by the following-

ment of

regulation

114 and

CommKCE-

ment thereof.

Addition of

new regula- tion 114A.

**Minimum

age for employees.

114. No person under the age of eighteen years shall be employed in the premises.".

(2) This regulation shall not come into operation until one year after the commencement of these regulations.

11. The principal regulations are amended by the addition, after regulation 114, of the following new regulation-

"Minimum

age for person present in

114A. No person under the age of sixteen years shell be permitted to be present, at any time during which the licensee may, under and in accordance with his licence. The premises. allow the premises to be used for instruction in dancing, in any part of the premises available to persons resorting thereto for the purpose of receiving instruction in dancing."

12. Regulation 117 of the principal regulations is revoked.

Revocation of regula Hệ 147.

13. The principal regulations are amended by the addition, after Addidon of regulation 119, of the following new regulations-

"Prohibition

of partitions

und screen.

119A. (1) The licensee shall not erect, place or have any partition or screen in any part of the premises available to persons resorting thereto for instruction in dancing.

(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 w to seating.

Prohibitica

gainst

catering

cock lofta.

119B. 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 for the purpose of instruction in 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 arca; 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.

119C. (1) No person shall be permitted to enter any cockloft in the premises at any time during which the licensee may, under and in accordance with his licence. allow the premises to be used for instruction in dancing,

(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall be taken to prohibit the licensee himself from entering any such cockloft.”.

14. Regulation 120 of the principal regulations is revoked and replaced by the following "Lighting.

new regula- Lions 119A. 1199 and 119C.

ment of

120. (1) The premises shall at all times when open Revocation for the purpose of instruction in dancing, except between and replace- the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 pm.. be lighted throughout by regulatio gas or electricity from the mains of a public utility com- 120. pany, the lighting shall be controlled by switches, no lamp shall be connected to a switch or other device by which the light therefrom may be dimmed, and, except by and in accordance with the special permission of the licensing authority, no candle, oil lamp or other form of illumination shall be used therein.