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3. No person shall purchase any Government ticket Prohibition or any stamp except from a person duly appointed to of purchasing sell and distribute stamps or duly licensed to deal in stamped stamps:

tickets or

stamps from unauthorised

Provided always that nothing in this Regulation persons. shall apply to a person purchasing a Government ticket or stamp from the proprietor for the purpose of being admitted to the entertainment,

on tickets

4. The proprietor shall not issue or have in his Frice of possession at the place of entertainment any ticket admission being a ticket authorising or intended to be issued to be printed for the purpose of authorising any person to be ad- mitted to the entertainment, unless the price of ad- mission and the statement required by this Regula- tion are legibly printed, stamped or otherwise marked on the ticket.

For the purpose of this Regulation the price of ad- mission means the price either inclusive or exclusive of the duty, and there shall be printed on every such ticket as aforesaid a statement whether the price printed thereon in accordance with the requirements of this Regulation includes the duty or excludes the duty, as the case may be.

5. The proprietor shall not issue an adhesive stamp Adhesive to any person otherwise than securely affixed to a stamps not ticket issued for the purpose of authorising admission to be issued to the entertainment.

except on tickets.

tickets to be

6-(1) The proprietor shall not, on any payment No tickets for admission to the entertainment being made, issue other than in respect of that payment any ticket authorising stamped admission to the entertainment other than a Govern- issued on ment ticket denoting the proper amount of duty payments chargeable in respect of that payment or a ticket to made for which is affixed an adhesive stamp denoting that admission.

amount.

(2) The provisions of this Regulation shall not apply in any case where the proprietor of the entertainment has made arrangements approved by the Treasurer for furnishing returns of payments for admission and has given security to his satisfaction for the payment of duty.

undefaced and defaced

7.-(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regula- Tickets and tions the proprietor shall not deface, cut, tear, or stamps to be diminish any Government ticket before it is issued to issued the person paying for admission, or any adhesive stamp before the ticket to which it is affixed is so subsequent- issued, or admit any person to an entertainment with ly. a Government ticket, or a ticket bearing an adhesive stamp, which has been defaced, cut, torn or diminish- ed.

(2) No person being the holder of a Government ticket, or of a ticket to which an adhesive stamp is affixed, issued for the purpose of authorising admis- sion to an entertainment, shall deface, cut, tear or diminish the ticket or stamp, as the case may be.

(3) The proprietor shall collect the tickets of all persons about to be admitted to the entertainment with a Government ticket or a ticket bearing an ad- hesive stamp, and every person about to be so ad- mitted with such a ticket shall immediately before admission to the entertainment deliver the ticket to the person who is collecting the tickets,

(4) When a ticket is so collected the proprietor shall forthwith deface the stamp on the ticket by tearing the ticket into two portions across the stamp, and shall return one portion of the ticket to the person