Kinematograph year book (1944)

Digest of Ads. 143 In this sub-section the expressions "blank film," "positives" and "negatives" have the same meanings respectively as in section three of the Finance Act, 1925. (6) For the purposes of this Act, registered films shall be deemed to be exhibited at more than one theatre at the same time if any part of the period during which any one registered film is exhibited at a theatre coincides with any part of the period during which any one registered film is exhibited at another theatre. (7) For the purposes of this Act, each part of a serial film or series of films shall be deemed to be a separate film. (8) Any reference in this Act to His Majesty's dominions shall be construed as including a reference to any British protectorate, and to any such territory, being a territory in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations is being exercised by His Majesty, as His Majesty may designate by Order in Council. Any Order in Council under this sub-section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order in Council. (45) . — Repeals and transitional provisions. (1) The provisions of the Act of 1927 specified in the Third Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed. (2) No film shall be registered under Part II of the Act of 1927 after the end of March nineteen hundred and thirty-eight ; and any application for the registration of a film under the said Part II, being an application which has been made before the commencement of this Act and has not been determined before the commencement of this Act, shall be treated as an application made under Part III of this Act for the registration of the film under that Part of this Act. (3) Any reference in the Act of 1927 to a licence or to a licensed person shall be construed as a reference to a licence granted under that Act, or, as the case may be, to a person holding an appropriate licence granted under that Act which is for the time being in force ; but the power of the court under paragraph (a) or paragraph {b) of subsection (2) of section twenty-four of the said Act to order that no licence shall be issued to a person may be exercised with respect to the issue ©f a licence under this Act, as well as with respect to the issue of a licence under that Act. (4) Section eighteen of the Act of 1927 shall not apply in relation to any acquisition of a film after the end of March nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, and section twenty-one of the said Act shall net apply in relation to any exhibition of a film after the end of September nineteen hundred and thirty-eight. (5) The reference in subsection (2) of section twenty-three of the Act of 1927 to the advisory cemmittee thereinafter mentioned shall be construed as a reference to the Cinematograph Films Council. (6) Any regulations made by the Board of Trade under section twenty-nine of the Act of 1927 shall, if and so far as those regulations were in force immediately before the commencement of this Act and provide for matters other than the charging of fees, continue in force notwithstanding the repeal of that section, but may be revoked as if they were regulations under this Act, and the sum by which the aggregate amount produced up to the commencement of this Act by the fees charged under the Act of 1927 exceeds the expenses incidental to the carrying out of that Act up to the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to form part of the amount produced by the fees chargeable under this Act. (7) The expressions "registered," "registration" and "the register," wherever used in the Axt of 1927, shall be construed as meaning respectively registered under that Act, registration under that Act and the register of films registered under that Act, except that in section nineteen of the said Act the expression "registered" shall, in relation to the year ending with the thirtieth day of September nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, be construed as meaning registered either under Part II of that Act or under Part III of this Act. (8) Any Order in Council made in pursuance of subsection (5) of section twenty-seven of the Act of 1927, shall, if and so far as the Order was in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, have effect as if any reference in the Order to the said subsection (5) included a reference to subsection (8) of the last preceding section of this Act, and may be varied or revoked as if it were an Order under the said sub-section (8). (46) . — Short title, commencement and, extent. (1) This Act may be cited as the Cinematograph Films Act, 1938. (2) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of April nineteen hundred and thirty-eight. (3) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland ; and for the purposes of the Government of Ireland Act, r920, the enactment of legislation for purposes similar to the purposes of this Act shall be deemed not to be beyond the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland by reason only that such legislation may affect trade with places outside Northern Ireland. SCHEDULES TO THE ACT ON NEXT PAGE.