Kinematograph year book (1944)

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Digest of Acts. 139 PART V. GENERAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS. (35) . — Films to which Act applies. The films to which this Act applies are all cinematograph films other than — {a) films consisting wholly or mainly of photographs which, at the time when they were taken, were means of communicating news, or (b) films made wholly or mainly for the purpose of commercial advertisement, or (c) films certified by the Board of Education under subsection (2) of section seven of the Finance Act, 1935, as being entitled to exemption from customs duties under the convention for facilitating the international circulation of films of an educational character which is referred to in that subsection, (36) . — Power of Board of Trade to vary by order minimum figure in respect of labour costs. (1) The Board of Trade, after consulting the Cinematograph Films Council and considering its advice in the matter, may lay before Parliament the draft of an order directing that any provisions of this Act or of an order under Part III of this Act which specify a sum to which — («) the labour costs of a film, or the quotient arrived at by dividing the amount of the labour costs of the film by the length thereof, or (b) the price paid or payable for the acquisition of the right to distribute a film in a foreign country, must amount for any particular purpose, shall have effect as if for any reference in those provisions to the said sum there were substituted a reference to such other sum as may be specified in the order ; and if each House of Parliament resolves that the order be made, the Board shall make the order in terms of the draft, and the order shall come into operation on such date as may be specified therein. (2) The power conferred by the preceding subsection to lay in draft before Parliament and to make an order shall be construed as including a power, exercisable in the like manner and subject to the like condition, to lay in draft before Parliament and to make an order varying or revoking an order having effect by virtue of that subsection. (37) . — Annual returns to be made by renters and exhibitors. (1) Every person who has, in the year beginning at the commencement of this Act or any of the nine succeeding years, carried on business as a renter in Great Britain shall — {a) within one month after the end of that year, or within such longer period as the Board of Trade may in any particular case allow, furnish to the Board a return stating whether or not he has in that year acquired for distribution in Great Britain any film which is a registered film, and, if he has done so, giving with respect to each registered film which has been so acquired by him in that year such particulars as may be prescribed, being particulars which the Board consider necessary for the purposes of this Act, and {b) not later than the end of April in the year next following that in which a return has been made by him in pursuance of paragraph (a) of this subsection, furnish to the Board of Trade a supplementary return giving, with respect to any registered film acquired by him as aforesaid in the year to which the original return relates, such of the prescribed particulars as could not have been given in the original return : Provided that, in relation to any such person who has ceased in any such year to carry on business as a renter in Great Britain, paragraph (a) of this subsection shall have effect as if for the reference in that paragraph to the end of that year, there were substituted a reference to the date in that year on which he ceased to carry on business as aforesaid. (2) Any such return as aforesaid shall be admissible in evidence for the purpose of determining whether the films mentioned in the return as having been acquired by the person by whom the return was made were acquired by him for distribution in Great Britain. (3) Every person who has. in any exhibitors' quota year, carried on business as an exhibitor at a theatre in Great Britain, shall, within one month after the end of that year, furnish to the Board of Trade a return stating whether or not he has in that year exhibited to the public at a theatre in Great Britain a film which is a registered film, and, if so — (a) specifying the dates in that year on which any registered film was exhibited by him to the public at that theatre, and, in relation to each of those dates, the number of times the film was so exhibited, and (6) giving such other particulars (if any) with respect to the film as may be prescribed, being particulars which the Board consider necessary for the purposes of this Act ; and the said return shall include a statement showing, in relation to each day in the said year on which cinematograph films were exhibited to the public at that theatre, the respective times at which the exhibition of films as aforesaid began and ended : Provided that, if in any such year an exhibitor ceases to carry on the business of exhibiting registered films to the public at. any particular theatre in Great Britain, the return to be made by him with respect to that theatre for that year shall be made within one month after the date on which he so ceases to carry on that business at that theatre.