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Notification exempting certain classes of Exhibitions.
NOTIFICATION.
.A o. 8308P. The 6th Avgust, 1920. —In exercise of the power
conferred by section 9 of the Cinematograph Act, 1918 (II of 1918), the
Governor in Council is pleased to exempt from the operations of the said
Act, and any rules made thereunder, all cinematograph exhibitions on
the occasion of entertainments of a private character given in private
houses, or at schools, colleges, institutes, mills, fairs or melas, provided
the following conditions and restrictions are complied with, viz : —
(1) Xo film which has not been certified under section 7 as suitable
for exhibition shall be exhibited.
(2) XA admission fee for any kind shall be charged to view the
exhibition.
(3) Xo drapery and no unprotected combustible material other
than such material as may compose the floor shall be within 6 feet of
the cinematograph.
(4) A bucket of sand and two buckets of water shall be placed
close to the cinematograph. A large sponge shall be kept in one of
the buckets of water.
(5) Not more than 40 lbs. of film shall be kept in any place where
such exhibition is being made, and all such films shall be kept in securely
closed fire-resisting receptacles.
(6) If the number of persons invited to witness an exhibition,
which does not take place in the open air, exceeds 100, the previous
j^ermission of the District Magistrate, or in the town or suburbs of
(lalcutta, of the Commissioner of Police, shall be obtained.
(7) XA exhibition shall be held in a tent or any shelter or struc
ture composed of, or covered with, combustible material, or of a
movable character, unless the cinematograph is operated from outside,
and at a distance of at least 6 feet from such structure.
H. L. Stephenson,
Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal.