Kinematograph year book (1944)

Digest of Acts. 131 held by him, and may order, with respect to the offender or any of the following persons that is to say, — (i) any person who, at or since the time when the offence occurred, was or has been financially associated with the offender in his business as a renter. (ii) any person concerned in the management of the offender's said business who was knowingly a party to the offence, and (iii) any person who has acquired the offender's said business either wholly or in part, that he shall, for such period as may be specified in the order, be disqualified for holding a renter's licence, and (b) if the offence is an offence under the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to exhibitors' quotas, and the offender has previously been convicted of an exhibitor's offence not less than twice (whether summarily or on indictment), may revoke any exhibitor's licence held by him in respect of the theatre in relation to which the offence has occurred, and may order, with respect to— (i) the offender, (ii) any person who, at or since the time when the offence occurred, was or has been financially associated with the offender in his business as an exhibitor, or (iii) any person concerned in the management of the offender's said business who was knowingly a party to the offence. that he shall, for such period as may be specified in the order, be disqualified for holding an exhibitor's licence in respect of that theatre, and may also order that every person in whose case an exhibitor's licence, or a licence granted under the Act of 1927 for the purposes of section twenty of that Act, has been revoked during the year immediately preceding the date of the conviction, shall, for such period as may be specified in the order, be so disqualified : Provided that an order under paragraph (a) of this subsection shall not operate so as to prevent the offender performing, for a period not exceeding six months, any obligations under any contract entered into by him before the institution of the proceedings leading to the conviction. (3) Notwithstanding anything in the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, summary proceedings for a quota offence under this Part of this Act may, in the case of an offence under the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to renters' quotas, be instituted at any time within two years after the end of the renter's quota period in relation to which the offence has occurred, or, in the case of an offence under the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to exhibitors' quotas, be instituted at anytime within one year after the end of the exhibitors' quota year in relation to which the offence has occurred. (4) In this section the expression "renter's offence " means a quota offence under the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to renters' quotas, or an offence under section thirteen of the Act of 1927, and the expression "exhibitor's offence" means a quota offence under the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to exhibitors' quotas, or an offence under section nineteen of the Act of 1927. (12). — Record books to be kept by renters and exhibitors. (1) Any renter who has, in the period beginning at the commencement of this Act and ending with the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and forty-eight, acquired for distribution in Great Britain a film which is a registered film shall, as soon as practicable, record in a book to be kept by him for the purpose— (a) the title and registered length of the film, the fact that it is registered as a British film or registered as a foreign film, as the case may be, and such other particulars with respect to the film as may be prescribed for the purpose of identification, and (b) the theatres in Great Britain for public exhibition at which he delivers the film to ex hibitors, and the respective dates on which, or periods for which, the film is to be, or has been, exhibited to the public at those theatres on delivery as aforesaid ; and shall, whenever requested so to do by a person authorised in that behalf by the Board of Trade, produce the said book for inspection by that person. (2) Any exhibitor who, in any exhibitors' quota year, exhibits a registered film to the public at a theatre in Great Britain shall, as soon as practicable, record in a book to be kept by him for the purpose in respect of that theatre — (a) the title and registered length of the film, the fact that it is registered as a British film or registered as a foreign film, as the case may be, and such other particulars with respect to the film as may be prescribed for the purpose of identification, and (b) the dates in that year on which the film was exhibited to the public at that theatre, and, in relation to each of those dates, the number of times the film was so exhibited and the respective hours at which the exhibition of cinematograph films to the public at that theatre began and ended : Provided that an exhibitor who does not, in any exhibitors' quota year, exhibit registered films to the public at any one theatre in Great Britain on more than six days nor at more than one such theatre at the same time, shall not be obliged to keep under this subsection more than one book in respect of the theatres at which he so exhibits registered films in that year. (3) Any book which an exhibitor is required by this section to keep in relation to a particular theatre shall, so long as he continues to carry on the business of exhibiting registered films to the public at that theatre, be kept by him at that theatre and be open to inspection thereat, at all reasonable times, by any person authorised in that behalf by the Board of Trade ; and, subject to the preceding provisions of this subsection, an exhibitor who is required to keep a book under this section hall, whenever requested so to do by a person authorised in that behalf by the Board, produce the book for inspection by that person. E 2