Kinematograph Year Book 1947 (1947)

Cinematograph Films Act, 1938. 549 (42). — Institution of proceedings, and service of process. (i) Proceedings for an offence under this Act shall not, in England, be instituted otherwise than by the Board of Trade. (2) Any process to be served on any person for the purposes of this Act shall, if that person is out of Great Britain but has a place of business in Great Britain, be deemed to be duly served if it addressed to that person and left at, or sent by post to, that place of business. (43). — Exercise of powers of Board of Trade. Anything required or authorised by or under this Act to be done by, to or before the Boaro. of trade, may be done by, to or before the President of the Board, any secretary, under-secretary or assistant-secretary of the Board, or any person authorised in that behalf by the President. (44). — Interpretation: (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say : — •' the Act of 1927 " means the Cinematograph Films Act, 1927 ; " the Cinematograph Films Council" means the Cinematograph Films Council constituted under this Part of this Act ; "exhibitor" means a person carrying on the business of exhibiting cinematograph films to the public ; "exhibitor's licence" means, in relation to any person, a licence under Part 1 of this Act authorising him to carry on business as an exhibitor ; "exhibitors' quota year" means the year beginning with the first day of October nineteen hundred and thirty-eight or any of the nine succeeding years ; "foreign country" means a country or territory which for the time being does not form part of His Majesty's dominions ; "labour costs, "in relation to a film, means the total amount of the payments paid or payable by the maker of the film in respect of the labour or services of persons directy engaged in the making of the film, in so far as those payments are attributable to the making of that film, but does not include payments in respect of copyright ; and for the purposes of this definition — (<i) the author of the scenario of a film shall be deemed to be a person directly engaged in the making of the film, and (6) a person shall not be taken to be directly engaged in the making of a film by reason only — (i) that he is financially interested in the making of a film, or is engaged, in an administrative or clerical capacity, as an officer or servant of an undertaking concerned with the making of the film, or (ii) that he supplies goods used in the making of the film or is in the employment of a person who supplies such goods ; •• long film " means a film the length of which is not less than three thousand feet ; "maker," in relation to a film, means the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the making of the film are undertaken ; " the register," means the register of films registered under Part III of this Act, and "registration" means registration under that Part of this Act; "registered" means registered either under Part III of this Act or under Part II of the Act of 1927; "registered length," in relation to a film, means the length of the film as registered for the time being "renter" means a person who carries on the business of distributing cinematograph films to exhibitors, and, in relation to any renters' quota period, includes a person who has carried on that business in that period :