Kinematograph year book (1944)

Digest of Acts. 135 (4) As soon as may be after the end of the week beginning at the commencement of this Act, and of each subsequent week, the Board of Trade shall publish in the Board of Trade Journal a list of films registered in that week. (5) The register shall, at all reasonable times, be open to inspection by any person at the offices of the Board of Trade, on payment of the prescribed fee, and any person inspecting the register may take copies of any entries therein. (6) The Board of Trade shall, on demand made in that behalf by any person and on payment of the prescribed fee, furnish that person with a copy of the entry in the register relating to any particular film, being a copy certified to be true by the officer of the Board of Trade having the custody of the register. (24) . — Applications for registration, and information to be furnished in connection therewith. (1) Every application for the registration of a film shall be made either by the maker of the film or by a renter who has acquired it for distribution in Great Britain, and shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee. (2) No such application as aforesaid shall be entertained unless the film which is the subject of the application has been trade-shown within the fourteen days immediately preceding the date on which the application is made : Provided that— (a) a provisional application may be made before the film has been trade-shown, and in that case, if the film is trade-shown within six weeks after the date on which the provisional application is made, the provisional application shall thereupon be treated as if it had been made within fourteen days after the film was trade-shown ; and (b) an application made more than fourteen days after the film was trade-shown may be entertained by the Board of Trade if they are satisfied that the delay was due to special circumstances and was not intentional. (3) The applicant for the registration of a film, and if the applicant is not the maker of the film, the maker, shall produce to the Board of Trade such books and other documents relating to the film, and furnish to the Board such other information with respect thereto, as the Board may require for the proper discharge of their functions under this Part of this Act in relation to that film ; and any information furnished for the purposes of this subsection shall, if the Board so direct, be accompanied by a statutory declaration as to the truth of the information, being a declaration made by the person furnishing the information : Provided that an application for the registration of a film shall not be granted, unless and unti theVe has been furnished to the Board of Trade a statutory declaration made by the applicant to the affect that there has not been made, in relation to that film, any such agreement as is declared by part II of this Act to be invalid in any respect. (25) . — Determination of films to be treated as British films for purposes of registration. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, a film shall, for the purpose of the registration thereof under this Part of this Act, be deemed to be a British film if, and only if, — (a) the maker of the film was, throughout the time during which the film was being made, either a British subject or a British company, and (b) the studio, if any, used in making the film was within His Majesty's dominions, and (c) not less than the requisite amount of labour costs represents payments paid or payable in respect of the labour or services of British subjects or persons domiciled in some part of His Majesty's dominions. (2) In paragraph (a) of the preceding subsection the expression " a British company " means a company incorporated under the laws of any part of His Majesty's dominions, being a company the directors of which, or the majority of the directors of which, were British subjects ; and for the purposes of paragraphs (a) and (c) of that subsection, any film used for making photographs depicted as part of any scene in the film which is the subject of the application for registration, shall be deemed to form part of the last-mentioned film ; and in paragraph (c) of that subsection the expression "the requisite amount of labour costs " means, in relation to any film — (a) (in a case where the total labour costs of the film amount to not less than twenty-two thousand five hundred pounds, and the quotient derived from dividing the amount of the said total labour costs by the number of feet comprised in the length of the film is a sum of not less than three pounds) whichever of the two following amounts is the less, that is to say — (i) the amount arrived at by applying the fraction three-quarters to the tota labour costs of the film, after deducting therefrom, if the applicant for registration so desires, the amount of any payment which, as part of those costs, has been paid or is payable in respect of the labour or services of any one person who was, while engaged in the making of the film, neither a British subject nor a person domiciled in some part of His Majesty's dominions ; (ii) the amount arrived at by applying the fraction four-fifths to the total labour costs of the film, after deducting therefrom the amount of any payments which, as part of those costs, have been paid or are payable in respect of the labour or services of any two persons neither of whom was, while engaged in the making of the film,