Kinematograph year book (1935)

174 The Kinematograph Year Book. Provided that it shall not be necessary to comply with the above requirements in respect of any film if, whenever a copy thereof is issued to an exhibitor for exhibition to the public in Great Britain, an invoice containing such particulars as aforesaid is sent by the renter to the exhibitor. (2) If after copies of a film have been so marked or invoices have been so sent the registration of the film is corrected in manner provided by this part of the Act, then — (a) in the former case a corresponding alteration shall be made in all copies of the film ; and (b) in the latter case, new invoices containing the correct particulars shall be sent. (3) If any person fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section, or issues a copy of any registered film incorrectly marked or any invoice containing incorrect particulars, he shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds in respect of each copy. 12. — (Special Provisions as Serial Films, etc.) — In the case of a serial film or a series of films the provisions of this Part of this Act shall apply subject to the following modifications : — (1) The separate parts of the film or series of films shall be separately registered and each part shall be treated as a separate film ; (2) Where three parts of the film or series have been trade shown, any other part may be registered without having been trade shown and notwithstanding that more than fourteen days have elapsed since the said three parts were trade shown. Provided that if the Board are at any time of opinion that it is no longer desirable to dispense with a trade show in the case of the remaining parts of serial films and series of films, they may make an order to that effect, and on the making of the order this paragraph shall cease to apply. PART III. PROVISIONS FOR SECURING QUOTA OF BRITISH FILMS. By the Renters. 13. — (Provisions as to Renters' Quota) — (1) In the year commencing on the first day of April nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, and in each of the nine succeeding years, any person engaged in the business or renting registered films to exhibitors for the purpose of public exhibition in Great Britain (hereinafter referred to as a renter) shall acquire for the purposes of such renting a total length of registered British films representing at least such proportion of the total length of all registered films so acquired by him in the year as is specified as respects the year in Part I. of the Schedule to this Act, and such proportion as hereinafter referred to as the renters' quota, and if the films so acquired include both long films (that is to say, films the registered length of which is three thousand feet or upwards) or short films (that is to say, films the registered length of which is less than three thousand feet), the requirements of this section must be satisfied as respects the long films so acquired as well as respects all films so required . (2) If any such year a renter fails to comply with the requirements of this Part of the Act as to the renters' quota he shall be guilty of an offence, unless such a certificate as is hereinafter mentioned has been issued by the Board of Trade, or unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court that the reasons for non-compliance were reasons beyond his control. (3) In this section, "registered British film" means a British film which either at the time of its acquisition by the renter is, or later within the same year becomes, a registered British film "registered film " means a film which either at the date of its acquisition by the renters is, or later within the same year becomes a registered film. (4) If a film is not registered at the time of its acquisition by a renter, and is registered after the expiration of the year in which it is so acquired, the film shall, for the purposes of this part of the Act, be treated as if it had been acquired by the renter in the year in which it is registered . (5) Where a renter has in any such year acquired any registered films and subsequent!} in the same year his business as a renter by assignment or will or on intestacy or by operation of law, becomes vested in some other licensed renter, that other renter and not the first-mentioned renter shall for the purposes of the provisions of this Part of this Act as to the renters' quota be deemed to to have acquired the films. 14. — (Power of Small Renters to Combine). — Any number of renters none of whom, or of whom not more than one, during any such year acquires for the purposes of renting to exhibitors more than six long registered films, as hereinbefore defined, may, if the Board of Trade consent, combine for t he purposes of the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to the renters' quota the total length of registered British films so acquired by them in that year and the total length of all registered films so acquired by them in that year, and in such case if the total length of such registered British films bears the proper proportion to the total length of all such registered films, and the total length of all such long registered British films bears the proper proportion to the total length of all such long registered films, each renter shall as respects that year be deemed to have satisfied the provisions of this Part of this Act as to the renters' quota. 15. — (Provisions Applicable Where Same Film Rented by Different Persons for Different Areas.) — Any renter whose business is limited to the renting of films for exhibition exclusively in a limited geographical area within Great Britain may for the purposes of his renters' quota count any registered British film for the renting of which in that area he has acquired the exclusive right and which has not been previously exhibited to the public in that area, notwithstanding that the film has been already counted for the purposes of the renters' quota by some other renter, being a renter who has acquired the exclusive right to rent it for exhibition in some other limited area, or in Great Britain exclusive of the first-mentioned area. 16. — (Prohibition of Counting Film More than Once for Quota Purposes.)— No British film shall be counted more than once for the purposes of the provisions of this Part of this Act with respect to the renters' quota, nor, save as hereinbefore expressly provided, shall any British film be counted for the purposes aforesaid by more than one renter. 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