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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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