Kinematograph year book (1946)

172 The Kinematograph Year Book. (27). — Power to disregard items of labour costs in certain circumstances. If, upon any application for the registration of a film under this Part of this Act. being an application in connection with which it is material to ascertain — (a) the labour costs of the film, or (b) the proportion of those costs which represents payments in respect of the labour or services of persons of any particular class, it appears to the Board of Trade that any sum which, as part of those costs, is paid or payable in respect of the labour or services ofany particular person is so great as not to be a bona fide payment by way of remuneration for the labour or services in question, the Board may direct that the said sum shall, as to the whole or any part of the amount thereof, be disregarded in ascertaining the said labour costs or the said proportion thereof as the case may be. (2S). — Registration of serial films. (1) Subject to the provisions of the following subsection, an application for the registration of any part of a serial film or series of films may be entertained if three parts of the film or series have been trade-shown. (2) The Board of Trade, after consulting the Cinematograph Films Council and considering its advice in the matter, may by order direct that the preceding subsection shall not apply in relation to any such application for registration as aforesaid which may be made during the continuance in force of the order ; and any order under this subsection may be revoked by a subsequent order of the Board. . • (3) If an order is made under the last preceding subsection, any provision contained in Part II of this Act which qualifies, in relation to any serial film or series of films, a restriction imposed by that Part of this Act shall operate so as to qualify that restriction in relation only to the exhibition of such parts (if any) of a serial film or series of films as are not the subject of applications for regisration made during the continuance in force of the order. (29) . — Prohibition of registration of film exhibited or registered before commencement of Act. A film which has been exhibited in Great Britain to the public before the commencement of this Act (other than a film which was first so exhibited after the end of September nineteen hundred and twenty-seven and is a film to which the Act of 1927 applies) shall not be registered after the commencement of this Act, and a film which has been duly registered under Part II of the Act of 1927 shall not be registered under this Part of this Act : Provided that for the purposes -of this section a film shall not be taken to have been exhibited to the public by reason only that the film has been trade-shown. (30) . — Corrections of register. if, at any time after the registration of a film, the Board of Trade, upon making any such inquiries as they think desirable, are satisfied that the film either ought not to have been registered or is incorrectly registered in any particular, they shall cause the necessary deletion or correction to be made in the register and. if the Board think proper, issue to the maker of the film, or, if the film has been acquired by a renter for distribution in Great Britain, issue to the renter, a certificate of registration to take the place of any such certificate previously issued in respect of the film ; but the Board, if in any particular case they think fit so to do, may direct that, for the purpose of any of the provisions of Part I of this Act relating to renters' quotas and exhibitors' quotas, the film shail, to such extent as may be specified ia the direction, be treated as if the deletion or correction in the register had not been made. (31) . — Keference of disputes to High Court or Court of Session. (1) Any person who is aggrieved by any decision taken by the Board of Trade for the purpose of the performance of their duties in relation to the register, may, subject to rules of court, make application in the matter to the High Court, and the decision of that court on any such application shall be final and not subject to appeal to any other court. (2) In relation to any person whose principal place of business is in Scotland, the preceding sub-section shall have effect as if for any reference therein to the High Court there were substituted reference to the Court of Session. '.32). — Evidence of registration. The registration of a film may be proved by the production of — (a) a copy of the Board of Trade Journal containing a notification of the registration of the film, or (b) the certificate of registration issued, or, as the case may be, last issued in respect of the film, or (c) a copy of the entry in the register relating to the film, being a copy certified to be true by the officer having the custody of the register ; and a document purporting to be such a certificate of registration, or to be such a certified copy as