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Kinematograph year book : 1931 (1931)

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148 The Kinemaiograph Year Book. 1923. New Regulation unuek Cinematookapji Act, 1909. E.vhibitors should always keep a copy of these regulations by tliem as they take the place of the previous regulations dated 18th February, 1910, and 20th May. 1913. 1921. The Entertainments Duty Regulations are regulations made by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise under Section 2 of the Finance New Duties) Act, 1916, for securing the payment of Entertainments Duty. The points to be noted are that the price of admission must be printed on the tickets, Adhesive stamps are not to be issued except upon the tickets. No tickets other than stamped tickets to be issued on payment made for admission. Tickets and stamps to be issued undefaced and defaced subsequently. No Government ticket is to be used for admitting more than one person. (Note : Arrangements approved by the Commissioners can be made for providing returns of payments for admission to an entertamment.) The Employment of Children in entertainments, Statutory Rules and Orders 1920, No. 21. An application for a license to enable a child to take part in an entertainment or series of entertainments must be made in writing to the Local Educational Authority signed by the parent and the employer of the child in the form contained in the first schedule thereto, together with the necessary documents. Under this rule the term " parent " includes guardian and every person who is liable to maintain or has actual custody of the child. The Factories Bill, 1920. This Bill abolishes the distinction between factories and workshops and between textile and non-textile factories, and employs only the one word " Factory." Landlord and Tenant Act, 1927. This Act came into force on the 25th March of this year. It provides {inter alia) for compensation for improvements and compensation for loss of goodwill. Cinematograph Films Act, 1927, being an Act to restrict blind booking and advance booking of Cinematograph films, and to secure the renting and exhibition of a certain proportion of British films and for purposes connected therewith. The Act is printed in extenso at the end of this section. The Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. Under Section 20 of this Act electrical stations are defined as any premises or that part of any premises in which electrical energy is generated or transformed for the purpose of supply by way of trade or for the hghting of any street, &c. This section therefore brings a cinema which generates its own energy under the above Act, and therefore the requirements of the above Act must be complied with. The Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, was passed {inter alia) to define what machinery and plant was deemed to be part of the hereditament for rating purposes. The Rating and Valuation Act, 1928, was an Act passed to extend to the Administrative County of London the provisions of the Rating and Valuation Act 1925 with respect to the valuation of hereditaments containing machinery and plant and to make temporary provision with respect to the deduction to be made in ascertaining the rateable value — to amend Sections 11 and 37 and the 4th and 5th Schedules of the 1925 Act and to provide for the tenant decisions on points of law with a view to securing unifonnity in valuation.