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Amendrocat

of Form 12.

20. Form 12 in the Appendix to the principal regulations is amended-

(a) by the deletion of the heading of the licence therein given and

the substitution therefor of the following-

"PUBLIC TABLE TENNIS SALOON LICENCE"; and

(b) by the deletion of the words "a table tennis saloon and the

substitution therefor of the following ----

“a public table tennis salgon":

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

17th August, 1965,

Explanatory Nore.

Clerk of Councils.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).

These regulations amend the Miscellaneous Licences Regulations in the following respects—

(1) by regulation 2, the Commissioner of Police, in place of the Distri Commissioner, New Territories, will be the licensing authority in respect of money-changers in the New Territories, and fees for licences are increased except in the case of licences for automatic machine establishments, physiotherapy clinic. public billiard tables, public bowling alleys, public skating rinks, public table lennis saloons, and undertakers for burials;

(2) by regulation 3, licensed money-changers who have hitherto been restricted to conducting their business behind a locked grille, may now conduct their business behind any protective material approved by the licensing authority: (3) by regulation 4, a minimum dancing area is laid down for public dance halls;

(4) by regulation 5, the minimum age for a person to be permitted to dance in a public dance hall is raised from 15 to 16 years and this applier equally to a person who is merely present in a public dance hall and the minimum age for a person to be employed in a public dance ball fr raised from 15 to 18, but with a saving in respect of present employees:

(5) by regulation 6, the licensees of public dance halls are, with effect from one month after the publication of these regulations, prohibited from erecting placing or having any partition or screen in their dance halls and requirements are laid down as regards the seating facilities provided in public dance halls;

(6) by regulation 7, two conditions applicable to public dance hall licences, the first of which relates to the using of Licensees deposits to meet the cost of the return or expulsion to any place outside the Colony of certain employees of the licensee and the second to producing for inspection the contracts of employ ment of employees, are deleted while one new condition relating to maximum Dumber of persons to be permitted to be present is added;

(7) by regulation 8, principal regulation 79, which exempts under-takers lo the New Territories outside New Kowloon from the licensing and other require ments of the regulations, is revoked, thus removing the exemption;

(8) by regulation 9, a minimum dancing area is laid down for dancing school:

(9) by regulation 10, the minimum age for employess in dancing schools is. with effect from one year after the publication of these regulations, raised from 15 to 18 years, and by regulation ti the minimum age of others present in the premises during the time the premises may be open for dancing instruction is set at 16 years;

(10) by regulation 12, the power to extend dancing school hours is revoked; (11) by regulation 13, the licensees of dancing schools are, with effect from one month after the publication of these regulations, prohibited from erecting. placing or having any partition or screen in their dancing schools and require. ments are laid down as regards the seating facilities provided in dancing schools and entry into cacklofts in the premises, except by the licensee, at any time when the premises may be open for dancing instruction is prohibited;

(12) by regulation 14, lighting in dancing schools is dealt with and the licensing authority is empowered to lay down, by endorsement on the liccoce, specifications and requirements in regard to lighting, subject to a right of appeal by the licenses;

(13) by regulation 15, a new condition relating to maximum number of persons to be permitted to be present is imposed on dancing school licensees;

(14) by regulations 16, 17 and 20, the word "public" is inserted before the words "table tennis saloon" in the interests of consistency; and

(15) by regulations 18 and 19, the reference to the amount of the Licence fee, which is incorrect in view of the revision of fees, is deleted from the form of two licences set out in the Appendix to the principal regulations.

(Secretariat GR13/3231/52)