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CAP. 114]

[r. 68 cont.]

Lighting.

Removal of fire danger.

Fire

appliances

and escape.

Exits and doors.

Miscellaneous Licences.

(a) any profanity or impropriety of language; (b) any indecency of dress, dance or gesture; (c) any offensive personalities or representations of living persons or anything calculated to produce riot or breach of the peace;

(d) any drunkenness or other disorderly conduct; (e) any unlawful game; or

(f) any persons of notoriously bad character to

assemble and meet together.

69. The premises shall be lighted throughout by gas or electricity 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 shall be used therein.

70. 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.

71. Every person licensed to keep a public dance hall shall provide and maintain on the premises to the satisfac- tion of the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade—

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

(b) adequate arrangements for escape in case of fire

from every part of the premises ;

(c) an adequate shade or guard for every lamp and

fire; and

(d) 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.

72. 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.

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