Kinematograph year book (1948)

Summary of Acts. 543 one person. (Note : Arrangements approved by the Commissioners can be made for providing returns of payments for admission to an entertainment.) The Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, was passed (inter alia) to define what machinery and plant was deemed to be part of the hereditament for rating purposes. Home Counties, Music and Dancing Licences Act, 1926. This was an Act passed to amend the law as regards Music and Dancing Licences in parts of certain Home Counties and in certain County Boroughs adjacent thereto. It gave powers to the Council to grant Licences for any period not exceeding 13 months to such persons as they thought fit. Under this Act the Council can delegate all or any of its powers to a Committee consisting wholly or partly of members of the Council. Landlord and Tenant Act, 1927. This Act came into force on the 25th March 1927. It provides (inter alia) for compensation for improvements and compensation for loss of goodwill. Trade Unions and Trade Disputes Act, 1927, amends the law relating to Trade Disputes and Trade Unions and regulates the position of Civil Servants and persons employed by public authorities in respect of membership of trade unions and similar organisations and to extend section 5 of the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875. The Rating and Valuation Act, 1928, was an Act passed to extend to the Administrative County of London the provisions of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, with respect to the valuation of hereditaments containing machinery and plant and to make temporary provision with respect to the deduction to be made in ascertaining the rateable value — to amend Sections 11 and 37 and the 4th and 5th Schedules of the 1925 Act and to provide for the tenant decisions on points of law with a view to securing uniformity in valuation. The Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, was an Act passed to make provision with a view to granting of relief h om rates in respect of certain classes of hereditaments to be affected and the apportionment in Valuation Lists of the net annual value of such hereditaments according to the extent and user thereof for various purposes. Section 3, sub-section 1 of this Act contains provisions as to " Industrial Hereditaments." " Industrial Hereditament " has been defined to mean a hereditament occupied and used as a mine or mineral railway or as a factory or workshop. A hereditament though part of it may be in law a " factory " or " workshop " is not to be treated as an Industrial hereditament if the premises as a whole are not primarily used for the purposes of a factory or workshop. With regard to the position of a Kinematograph Theatre, in view of the fact that the premises are not used primarily for the purposes of a factory or workshop I do not consider it comes under the heading of " Industrial Hereditament " and therefore does not appear to be entitled to " relief " as an" Industrial hereditament." The Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act Rules, 1928, made by tbe Minister of Health under section 58 of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, and of the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, prescribes the forms of notices, claims and lists to be used for the purposes of the fiist Schedule to the last mentioned Act and the dates to be observed in connection with the preparation and approval of lists under that Schedule. The list of valuations is deposited by the Rating Authorities at the office of the Authority and any person aggrieved can object to the assessment within 25 days of the deposit of the Valuation List. Forms of objection can be obtained from the Rating Authorities, and the forms should contain every possible ground for complaint. One person can object to another person's assessment on the ground that it is too low, and in such a case the