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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 20. The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 16th January, 1941 :---

[No. 34-12.12.40.-2.]

A BILL

INTITULED

Short title.

New section 5A inserted in Ordin-

An Ordinance to amend the Places of Public Entertainment

Regulation Ordinance, 1919.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Amendment Ordinance, 1941.

2. The Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Ordinance, 1919, is amended by the insertion of the follow- ance No. 22 ing new section after section 5 thereof :-

of 1919.

Restrictions

on the un- authorized sale of tickets.

Ordinance No. 28 of 1930.

5A. (1) No person shall sell, or offer or exhibit or have in his possession for sale, or solicit the purchase of, any ticket or voucher authorizing or purporting to authorize admission to any place of public entertainment licensed under this Ordinance or any place with respect to which duty on payments for admission is payable under the Entertainments Tax Ordinance, 1930-

(a) in any public thoroughfare, or in the entrance hall of, or approaches to, any such place as aforesaid, except at a box-office, booth, turnstile or counter appointed by the proprietor or manager of such place or by the organizer of the entertainment, exhibition, performance, amusement, game or sport held therein, or

(b) at a price exceeding the amount fixed by such proprietor, manager or organizer to be charged therefor, inclusive of the duty, if any, payable.

(2) Every person who contravenes the provisions of this section shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.