Theatres and Public Halls Act 1929 (ACT)

I Extract from Commonwealth of Australia, Gazette, No. 118,

dated 19th December, 1929.]

THE TERRITORY FOR THE SEAT

OF GOVERNMENT.

No. 22 of 1929.

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Theatres and Public Halls

Ordinance 1928.

BE it ordained by the Governor-General of the Commonwealth Council, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the Seat of of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive	Government Acceptance Act 1909 and the Seat of Government
(Administration) Act 1910, as follows:—

1.— (1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Theatres and short title

Public Halls Ordinance 1929.	and citation.
(2.) The Theatres and Public Hails Ordinance 1928, as amended by this Ordinance, may be cited as the Theatres and Public Halls Ordinance 1928-1929. "

2. After section twenty-five of the Theatres and Public Halls

Ordinance 1928, the following section is inserted:—

" 25A.—(1.) All halls, corridors, passages, stairs, exit doors, opening of

courts and other means of exit from a theatre shall be free theatres,
from all obstructions and all exU doors shall be unlocked and
available for the public at any interval during, and at the con-
clusion of, any performance.

" (2.) The owner, lessee or sub-lessee of any theatre who fails to allow the public to leave the theatre by all exit doors at any interval during a performance shall be guilty of an offence.

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

Penalty: Twenty pounds.''.

Dated this seventeenth day of December, 1929.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

FRANK BRENNAN

for Minister of State for Home Affairs.

By Authority: H. J. GREEN. Government Printer, Canberra.

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