203668-1933-Supplementary-Draft-Bill--Miscellaneous-Licences — Page 16

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10. The licensing authority may in his discretion for any particular occasion extend the hours prescribed in the licence.

Such extension shall be in writing, and subject to the payment of the fee prescribed by these regulations.

11. No intoxicating liquors shall be sold or consumed in the consumption premises, except under and in accordance with the terms of a valid of liquors.

licence in that behalf granted in respect of such premises.

Good order in premises.

Lighting.

Removal of fire danger.

Fire appliances

and escape.

Exits and doors.

Gangways

and stair-

cases.

Corridors not to be used as cloakrooms.

Latrines.

Hygiene.

12. Every person licensed to keep a public dance hall shail maintain good order in the premises and shall not suffer or permit therein

(1) any profanity or impropriety of language;

(2) any indecency of dress, dance or gesture;

(3) any offensive personalities or representations of living persons or anything calculated to produce riot or breach of the peace;

(4) any drunkenness or other disorderly conduct;

(5) any unlawful game; or

(6) any persons of notoriously bad character to assemble and meet together.

or

be lighted throughout by gas 13. The premises shall eletericity from the mains of a public utility company, and, except by and in accordance with the special permission of the licensing authority, no candle, oil lamp or other form of illumination shail be used therein.

14. The licensing authority may require the removal of, and the licensee shall immediately remove, anything in the premises which in the opinion of the licensing authority is a fire danger.

15. Every person licensed to keep a public dance hall shall provide and maintain on the premises to the satisfaction of the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade

(1) fire appliances adequate for the protection of the premises, at all times free from obstruction and ready for use;

(2) adequate arrangements for escape in case of fire from every part of the premises;

(3) an adequate shade or guard for every lamp and fire; and

(4) fire resisting screens, shutters, curtains or other adequate means of fire protection for every window or opening which adjoins any place or premises where any inflammable substance is kept or stored.

16. Every door and barrier on the premises must open outwards, and every exit shall be plainly indicated in seven-inch letters and Chinese characters by a fixed lighted sign of a nature and in a position approved by the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade.

17. Every gangway, passage and staircase for the exit of the public shall be kept entirely free from obstruction, whether permanent or temporary, and no person shall be permitted to loiter therein.

18. No corridor shall be used as a cloak room, and no pegs for hanging hats or cloaks shall be allowed therein.

19. Every person licensed to keep a public dance hall shali provide and shall maintain in a clean and wholesome condition on the premises adequate latrine, urinal or water-closet accomodation to the satisfaction of the Head of the Sanitary Department.

20. Every person licensed to keep a public dance hall shall provide adequate measures for ventilating, cleansing and otherwise securing hygienic conditions in the premises and shall maintain the premises in a hygienic condition to the satisfaction of the Head of the Sanitary Department.