Cap. 10 чл. 203Power of Minister responsible for the Police to make regulations.

(1) The Minister responsible for the Police may make and, when made, amend, repeal or repeal and re-enact regulations respecting public theatres, public cinematograph halls, public shows and entertainments, public balls and, in each case, the immediate approaches thereto. Without prejudice to the generality of this power such regulations may be provided in particular for -

(a) the issue and renewal by the Commissioner of Police of licences in respect of such places and the conditions governing such licences;

(b) fire-fighting appliances and other precautions against fire; the training, qualifications and licensing of firemen;

(c) the qualifications and licensing of the staff of cinematograph operating rooms;

(d) the means of promoting the ventilation and the sanitation in general of such places;

(e) (Repealed by Act XVIII.2012.3);

(f) the licensing of film importers; the responsibilities of the importers and the exhibitors; the minimum requirements of films for exhibition to the public, and the terms and conditions of supply of films by the importers to the exhibitors;

(g) the control of contracts between the purveyors of public performances and shows and the performers and other employees connected therewith;

(h) the duration of public performances, shows and exhibitions, and the composition of programmes therefor;

(i) admission to the said places, and restriction of admission thereto by age groups in respect of different classes of entertainments;

(j) accommodation in the said places and prices of admission in respect of different classes of seats, of different localities and of different occasions;

(k) the control of behaviour in the said places and the right of the Police to expel persons from any such place during the course of a performance or exhibition or show;

(l) the right of entry into the said places of specified public authorities and the rights exercisable by any such authority upon such entry;

(m) the liability of a licensee for the acts of his agents and servants;

(n) establishing the penalties to which any offender against any of the regulations made under this article shall be liable; such penalties may include fines in an amount not in excess of eleven thousand and six hundred and forty-six euro and eighty-seven cents (11,646.87), either with or without a determined minimum and the suspension or the cancellation of any licence whether issued under any regulations made under this article or otherwise;

(o) the constitution of a Board of arbitration for the purpose of settling disputes between importers and exhibitors of films; the functions and powers of such Board, and the procedure to be followed in proceedings before it.

(2) Regulations made under sub-article (1) may be made to apply, to such extent as may be specified therein, to premises being clubs or institutions at which theatrical or cinematographic performances or shows or balls are staged or given, whether habitually or occasionally and whether on payment or otherwise, before or to any audience or attendance comprising thirty or more persons.

(3) Regulations made under this article shall be laid on the table of the House of Representatives as soon as may be after they are made; and if the House of Representatives, within a period of twenty days beginning with the day on which any such regulations are laid before it, resolve that they be annulled, or amended, the same shall cease to have effect, or shall be so amended but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder or to the making of any new regulations. In reckoning any period for the purpose of this sub-article no account shall be taken of any time during which the House of Representatives is dissolved or prorogued or during which it is adjourned for more than four days.