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Censoring

of films and posters.

Penalty for prosenting cinemas

without permit.

Power to

make regu- lations for Places of

Public En- tertainment.

Chinese

theatrical

and further defined.

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(2.) No such permit by the Captain Superintendent of Police shall be given until the film or films to be used at such display and the poster or posters in connection therewith shall have been censored and passed in accord- ance with such regulations as may be made for the purpose under this Ordinance, and any film or poster, when once censored and passed as aforesaid, shall not be altered or added to in any way whatsoever without a fresh censoring and passing.

5. Any person who shall advertise, present, or carry ou any cinematograph display to which the public are admitted, or cause the same to be advertisel, presented or carried on without the permit of the Captain Superin- tendent of Police shall for every such offence be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars.

6. The Governor in Council may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes :-

(1.) The mode of application for licences for any building, whether permanent or temporary, or for any matshed, to be used for any public entertainment, and the issue of such licences to such person, for such period of time and during such hours as may be respectively determined in every such licence.

(2.) The cancellation of any such licence. (3.) Prescribing the payment of fees in respect

of all or any of such licences.

(4.) Prescribing the materials of which any such licensed building or matshed is to be constructed, and regulating the mode of building, staircases, corridors, gangways, vestibules, seating accommodation, entrances, exits, doors and fastenings, and all other matters appertaining to the same. (5.) Requiring the exercise of all such measures as may be prescribed in any such regulation against overcrowding, and for the control and prevention of fire in any such building or matshed, and for the maintenance of the sanitary condition of such building or matshed.

(6.) The maintenance of good order in any such

building or matshed.

(7.) The entry and inspection of any such build- ing or matshed at any time by the Captain Superintendent of Police, and the Building Authority, or any other officer authorised by the Governor in that behalf.

(8.) To provide for the censoring of cinematograph films and posters in such manner and on such principles as may be prescribed in such regulations.

(9.) To prescribe the fees to be paid in respect

of such censoring.

(10.) To prescribe any conditions whatsoever for any licence, permit, or permission to be given under this Ordinance or under any regula- ` tions made thereunder.

(11.) The imposition of penalties for breach of any regulations made in pursuance of this section and the mode of recovery of the same. (12.) Generally for carrying out the provisions of

this Ordinance.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance or in any regulation made thereunder shall affect the necessity for the issue performances by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs of permits for exempted,

Chinese public theatrical performances ́under the Regulation of Chinese Ordinance, 1888, or shall affect any regulations made under the said Ordinance, and the expression public theatrical performances as used in the said Ordinance shall include public entertainments as defined by this Ordinance.

(No. 3 of

1888.)