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CAP. 172]

[r. 1 cont.]

Notice of intention to open place of public entertain- ment.

Plans, etc.

Places of Public Entertainment.

(2) Any person who desires to keep or use any premises for a public entertainment shall, if not Chinese, send in an application in writing to the Commissioner of Police, and if Chinese send in an application in writing to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, which in either case shall contain the following information-

(a) the names, descriptions and addresses of the person

or persons making the application;

(b) the character of the entertainment for which the premises are proposed to be used and the locality. and general nature of the premises.

(3) The application shall contain a statement as to the nature and extent of the interest of such person or persons in the premises and such other particulars as the Commis- sioner of Police or the Secretary for Chinese Affairs may require in considering the application.

2.

Every person desirous of obtaining authority to open any premises within the Colony for a public entertain- ment shall first make public his intention so to do and the purpose for which the premises will be used, by exhibiting a notice on the proposed site, or if it is proposed to adapt an existing building, upon such building, in such a position that it can be plainly seen and read from the principal public thoroughfare upon which the site or building fronts, or by advertisement in four newspapers (two English and two Chinese) circulating in the Colony. A copy of the notice or of each of the four newspapers, as the case may be, shall be forwarded to the Commissioner of Police and to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

Submission of plans.

3. (1) If so required by the Commissioner of Police. or Secretary for Chinese Affairs, as the case may be, the applicant shall submit to the building authority—

(a) complete plans, elevations and sections to a scale

of 1/8 of an inch to a foot; and

(b) a block plan on a separate sheet showing the posi- tion of the premises in relation to any adjacent lots and buildings and to the public thoroughfares upon which the site of the premises abuts, drawn to a scale of not less than 1/20 of an inch to a foot.

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