Bill 19 (Legislature 7, Session 5)

L7 S5 8507

Alberta — Bills

REPRINTED BILL Bill No. 19 of 1935. A BILL TO AMEND THE THEATRES ACT. NOTE. The amendments made by sections 2, 3 and 4 of this Bill relate to the showing of moving pictures by means of films not in excess of twenty-eight millimetres in width, in the case of exhibitions exempted from taxation under The Amusements Tax Act. A person using equipment for the purpose of such exhibitions is expressly excepted from the definition of an itinerant exhibitor and such exhibitions may be held in places which are not licensed as theatres.

Section 4 of the Bill also amends the provisions relating to itinerant exhibitors to prevent exhibitions by such persons in places in which there is for the time being a theatre which is in operation for the display of moving pictures.

Section 5 extends the existing powers of censorship to advertising displays in connection with all kinds of enter tainments. Section. 6 amends the provisions as to the licensing of exhibitors and gives express power to the Lieutenant Gover nor in Council to fix the license fees at amounts less than ten dollars. R. ANDREW SMITH, Legislative Counsel. (This note does not form (my part of the Bill and is offered merely as a partial explanation of some of its provisions.)

REPRINTED BILL BILL No. 19 of 1935.

An Act to amend The Theatres Act. (Assented to , 1935.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Theatres Act Amend ment Act, 1935." 2. The Theatres Act, being

chapter 46 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1927, is hereby amended as to

section 2 thereof by adding at the end of paragraph (

c) thereof the words "other than exhibitions exempted from taxation under

section 4 of The 'Amusements Tax Act by means of films of a width not in excess of twenty-eight millimetres." 3. The said Act is further amended as to

section 8 thereof by adding thereto the following new subsection: "

(5) Nothing in this

section shall apply to the places at which any moving picture is shown by means of a film which is not more than twenty-eight millimetres in width at any exhibition exempted from taxation under

section 4 of The Amusements Tax Act." 4. The said Act is further amended as to

section 11 there of- (

a) by striking out the words "entertainment hall", where the same occur in subsection (2) thereof, and by substituting therefor the words "entertainment hall elsewhere than in a city, town, village or other place in which there is, for the time being, a theatre which is in operation for the display of moving pic tures" ; (

b) by adding at the end thereof the following new sub section: "

(3) This

section shall not apply to the owner or operator of a moving picture machine for the display of films which are not more than twenty-eight milli metres in width so long as the machine is being used for the display of moving pictures at any exhibition exempted from taxation under

section 4 of The Amusements Tax Act."

2 5. The said Act is further amended as to

section 16 thereof by striking out the word "displays", where the same occurs in paragraph (

f) thereof, and by substituting therefor the words "displays which relate to any entertainment of any description at any entertainment hall or theatre and". 6. The said Act is further amended as to

section 17 thereof by striking out the same and by substituting therefor the following: "17. No person shall use any cinematograph or moving picture machine or other similar apparatus for the public display of any moving pictures unless he is licensed so to do and has paid such annual license fee not in excess of ten dollars, has given such proof as to his competency by exam ination or otherwise as may be prescribed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and has paid the fees so prescribed for any examination to which he is required to submit himself." 7. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

REPRINTED BILL No. 19. FIFTH SESSION SEVENTH LEGISLATURE 25 GEORGE V 1935 BILL

An Act to amend The Theatres Act. Received and read the First time ................... . Second time ................. . Third time ....... , ......... " RON. MR. REID. EDMONTON: W. D. McLEAN. KINO'S PRINTER 1935 Title:1935 (7th, 5th) Bill 19,

An Act to amend The Theatres Act

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Citation	L7 S5 8507
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