Kinematograph year book (1935)

Digest of Acts. 159 graph entertainments, in pursuance of arrangements purported to have been made with the authority, and shall also extend to any borough or county district to which it may be extended by an order laid before Parliament in accordance with the provisions of the Schedule to this Act, and approved by a resolution passed by each House of Parliament : Provided that, if in any area the arrangements in pursuance of which places were so opened and used as aforesaid related only to specific occasional entertainments, then, unless and until it is extended to that area by such an order as aforesaid, this section shall extend to that area subject to the modification that the powers thereby conferred shall not be exercised with respect to more than two Sundays in any year. 2. — (1) There shall be established under the direction and control of the Privy Council a fund, to be called the " Cinematograph Fund," and all sums paid to an authority in accordance with conditions imposed by them under the last foregoing section for the purpose of being transmitted to that fund shall be so transmitted at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations made by a Secretary of State and laid before Parliament. (2) The moneys from time to time standing to the credit of the Cinematograph Fund shall, subject as hereinafter provided, be applied in such manner as may be directed by the Privy Council for the purpose of encouraging the use and development of the cinematograph as a means of entertainment and instruction : Provided that a sum equal to the amount certified by the Treasury as the amount of the expenses incurred by the Privy Council in the administration of the said Fund shall be deducted annually from the Fund and applied in accordance with directions given by the Treasury as an appropriation in aid of the moneys provided by Parliament for the purposes of the Privy Council. (3) The accounts of the Cinematograph Fund shall be kept in such form as may be directed by the Treasury, and an account showing the revenue and expenditure of the Fund shall be transmitted annually to the Comptroller and Auditor General, who shall certify and report upon the account, and the account and report shall be laid before Parliament. 3. The power of any authority in any area to grant licences under any enactment for the regulation of places kept or ordinarily used for public dancing, singing, music, or other public entertainment of the like kind, shall include power to grant such licences in respect only of musical entertainments on Sundays, and the power to attach conditions to any such licence shall include power to attach special conditions in respect of such entertainments on Sundays. 4. No person shall be guilty of an offence or subject to any penalty under the Sunday Observance Acts, 1625 to 17 80, by reason of his having managed, conducted, assisted at, or otherwise taken part in or attended or advertised — (a) any cinematograph entertainment at any place allowed under this Act to be opened and used on Sundays for that purpose ; (b) any musical entertainment at any place licensed to be opened and used on Sundays for that purpose or at any place authorised by virtue of letters patent or royal charter to be kept or used for entertainments ; (c) any museum, picture gallery, zoological or botanical garden or aquarium ; (d) any lecture or debate ; or by reason of his being the keeper of any place opened and used on Sundays for the purpose of any cinematograph entertainment or musical entertainment for which it is allowed under this Act or licensed to be so opened and used, or of any museum, picture gallery, zoological or botanical garden or aquarium, or of any place at which a lecture or debate is held on Sunday. 5. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say : — "Cinematograph entertainment" means the exhibition of pictures or other optical effects by means of a cinematograph or other similar apparatus with or without the mechanical reproduction of sound : " Contravention " in relation to any condition, includes a failure to comply with that condition : "Musical entertainment" means a concert or similar entertainment consisting of the performance of music, with or without singing or recitation : " Museum " includes any place permanently used for the exhibition of sculpture, casts, models, or other similar objects : "Prescribed percentage" means such percentage, not exceeding five per cent., a3 a Secretary of State may, if he thinks fit, prescribe by regulations made by him and laid before Parliament : " Sunday Observance Acts, 1625 to 17 80," means the Sunday Observance Act, 162 5, the Sunday Observance Act, 1677, and the Sunday Observance Act, 1780. 6. — (1) This Act may be cited as the Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932. (2) The Sunday Performances (Temporary Regulation) Act, 1931, is hereby repealed, as from the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty-two. (3) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland. The New Third Dimensional Technicolor at its best-Radio, of course!