Public Exhibitions Act Amendment Act of 1873 No 3a (NSW)

20 No. 8. 36° VIC. 1873.

Vuhllc Hxhihllions A ct Amendment.

No. VIII.

r̂c?A An Act to amend an Act inti tided “ An Act to amend tlie Laiv for reg’nlatin^’ places of Public Exhibition and Entertainment.” [26̂ /̂ Fehrnary, 1873J

Preamble. T T 7’ HE RE AS it is expedient to amend tiic Act of Council fourteenth

T y Victoria number tAventy-three intituled “An A ct to amend the

law regulating places o f IPuhlic Jdxhihition and Idntertainment” in order that grants of general licenses to give public exhibitions and enter­ tainments may subject to the conditions and provisions bereinrifter specified and declared be authorized to bo issued as hereinafter provided Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty by and Avitb the adr'ice and consent of the Legislative Council and L(!gis- lative Assembly of N cav South AVales in Rarliament assembled and by the authority of the same as folloAvs ;—

Short title &c.	1. Tl.iis Act shall be read Avith and as forming part of the Act of Council fourteenth Victoria number twenty-three intituled “An “ A ct to amend the law fo r regidating pdaces o f Public Exhibition and “ Entertainment'” hereinafter termed the “ Principal A ct” and may be cited as the “ Public Exhil)itions Act Amendment Act of 1873.”
General liccnscg may	2. Notwithstanding anything in the said Principal Act con­ to grant from time to time to such person or persons as he may think fit a general license to give public exhibitions and entertainments at any place or places Avitliin the Colony (not being Avithin the corporate boundaries of the city of Sydney) for such a period and imder such conditions and restrictions as shall be specified in such general license And it shall be lawful for the said Colonial Secretary at any time to revoke and cancel any such general license for any cause which may appear to him sufilcient in that behalf.
be grunted and
revoked b j the	tained it shall be laAvful for the Colonial Secretary for the time-being
Colonial Secretary.

Validation of general	3. All general licenses subsisting at the time of the passing of
licenses heretofore

granted under	this Act purporting to have been granted by the Colonial Secretary in
Principal Act.	pursuance of the proA'isions of the said Principal Act shall be dc(nned to have bOen laAvfully granted thereunder and shall be for the respcctAe periods specified in such general licenses as A'alid and efiectual to all intents and purposes as if the same had been granted Ainder this Act.
licenses.

Form of general 4. All general licenses authorized by this Act shall be graiited

according to the form of the Schedule hereto.

SCIIEDELT).

General License.

"WiiFHrAS by an Act of tbo Govevnor and Legislative Council of New Sontli Wales passed in the fourteenth year of the reign of Her present Maj(!sty tyicen Victoria intituled “ An Act to amend the La/c for rcfiulalin// pJace.s of I ’liHic lixluhition and ^Entertainment " certain penalties and liedjilities are imposed in resjiect of and in relation to the Theatrical Entertainments and Exhibitions hereinafter p.articularly mentioned to which admission shall or may be procured by ])aymcnt of money or by ti(d<ets or by any other me.ans token (jr consideration as the price hire or rent of admission in case the theatre house room building garden or place wherein the same shall be acted rc])re- sented i)erformed or exhibited shall bo without the written authority or license of the Colonial Secretary And whereas by an Act of Council passed in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Her said IMajcsty intituled “ An Act to amend an Act intituled ‘ An Act to amend the Law for rerinlatiiaj places o f Enhl'ic E.vhihifion and Entertainment’’” it was

enacted

1873. 30̂ VIC. No. 9.

Malrimonial Causes.

ciia,ctcd that it should be lawful for the Colonial Secretary for the lime-being to prant general licenses to give public exhibitions and entertainments as therein ])rovidcd

And whereas of

has apjdicd to mo to grant him a general license and authority to give public exhibi­ tions and entertainments in the said Colony under a.nd in ])ursuance of the provisions

of the said Acts Noxv I the Honorable

Es(juiro Colonial Secretary for the time-being of tlio Colony of Nexv South Wales in virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the said Acts do hereby grant unto the said

a general license and authority to give public exhibitions and entertainments in the said Colony (save and except xvithiii the City of Sydney) subject to the approval of the local Benches of IMagistrates of the several districts in which the ])erformance shall take jdaec and in any district so approved bv the Bench as aforesaid it shall be lawful for him to act rcju'cseut or perform or cause to be acted represented or performed tor hire gain or reward on such day or days in every week as ho may th.ink jiroper (save and except Sunday Good Briday and Christmas Hay) any interlude tragedy opera comedy stago-phiy farce burletta melo-drama pantomime or any stage-dancing tumbling or horsemanship or any other entertainment of the stage whatsoever licensed to be performed at any theatre in Bngland or in the representation of xvliieh express permission in writing shall have been gixen by the Colonial Secretary for the time-being And I declare and direct that this license continue in force for the period of unless the same sliall bo the sooner revoked by the Colonial Secrclary for the time-being of the said Colony But if the Colonial Secretary for the time-being shall by reason of any irregularity or upon any ground appearing to him sufficient in that behalf see tit to revoke this license the same shall thereupon cease to have any force or etfect and shall bo considered as no longer subsisting And it is further provided that this license shall come into operation only on the approval of the Bench of Magistrates of the place or district in which the performance shall take place such approval to bo signified by etidorsement on the license signed by two or more of the resident Justices who xvill lix and specify in such endorsement the time ami [dace I'or holding the entertainment.

Given under my hand at the Colonial Secretary’s Office at Sydney

this day of iu the year

of oiir Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy

Colonial Sucrelaiy.