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Digest of Acts.
151
ing the entertainment must station and keep stationed wherever necessary a sufficient number of adult attendants, properly instructed as to their duties, to prevent more children or other persons being admitted to the building, and to control the movement of the children and other persons admitted while entering and leaving the building or any part thereof, and to take all other reasonable precautions for the safety of the children.
Under Section 4 of this Act a constable may enter the building at any time with a view to seeing whether the provisions of the Act are being properly carried out.
By the Royal assent having been given to the Shops Hours of Closing Act, 1928, patrons can buy tobacco, matches, table waters, sweets, chocolates or other sugar confectionery or ice-cream at any time during performances in any Theatre, Kinema, Music Hall or other similar place of entertainment so long as the sale is to bona-fide members of the audience and not on apart of the building to which other members of the public have access.
This does away with the ban put upon Kinemas by D.O.R.A. some years
ago.
ENTERTAINMENTS TAX.
For tax purposes an " entertainment " includes any exhibition, performance, amusement, game, or sport to which persons are admitted for payment. Admission to the place where the entertainment is held is sufficient, otherwise tax could be evaded by charging admission and giving a free show. If there is an additional charge to go to another part of the premises, tax is levied on both charges. The proprietor for this purpose includes the person responsible for the management. The rates as now altered by the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1931, are as follows : Rate of Entertainments Duty. Amount of payment. Ditty. Where the amount of payment for admission, excluding the amount of the duty —
Exceeds 2d. and does not exceed 2^d. ... One halfpenny. Exceeds 2|d. and does not exceed 6d. ... One penny. Exceeds 6d. and does not exceed 7|d. ... Three halfpence. Exceeds 7|d. and does not exceed lOd. ... Two pence. Exceeds lOd. and does not exceed Is. 0-|d. ... Two pence halfpenny. Exceeds Is. O^d. and does not exceed Is. 3d. Three pence.
Exceeds Is. 3d. Three pence for the first
Is. 3d. and one penny for every 5d. or part of 5d. over Is. 3d. Admission can only be given by ticket stamped with a mark denoting that duty has been paid, or in special cases, if the Commissioners approve, through a barrier which automatically registers the numbers admitted. But the proprietor can make arrangements with the Commissioners dispensing with these conditions on the terms of furnishing certified returns at stated
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