S.L. 542.1 Art. 12Proof by licensee.

In the cases referred to in regulations 10 and 11, the licensees of cinematographs and, as the case may be, their agent or employee shall not be guilty of the offence of admitting to the exhibition of a film or programme a person below the requisite age, if he proves to the satisfaction of the court that, having regard to the circumstances, he had reason to believe that the person was of the requisite age, and shall in no case be guilty of an offence if any person under the age specified in the category gains admission to an exhibition of a film or programme from which he is excluded on account of age.