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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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public performances or public amusements whatever, whether
charge is made for admission thereto or not, unless the same
shall have been licensed as hereinafter provided.
2. Application for Licence.—The owner or occupier of any
such building shall apply in writing to the Department for a
licence, stating the situation, and description of the building,
and what use the applicant proposes, and what purpose he
wishes, it to be used for.
3. Conditions of Issue of Licence.—Such building shall be
licensed if, in the opinion of the officer appointed by the
Department in that behalf, and if satisfied
that the building is suitable and safe for the purpose, that the building is suitable and safe for the purpose for which it is intended to be used, and that it has sufficient means of ventila
tion and of ingress and egress, and of protection from fire and
fire, and in case the neighbourhood of the building being supplied with water, or in case it be within reasonable dis
tance of a fire brigade station, the applicant shall, when required by the Department, keep on the premises during the time in case of fire the Department properly supplied with at least two or more fire extinguishing apparatus of a kind or make to be approved by the Department, and such other appliances as the Department may require.
4. Licence Fee to be first paid.—The Department may refuse
a licence unless the prescribed fee for the same as appearing
below is duly paid.
5. Licence may be Refused or Revoked.—(1.) If the applicant
for the licence feels aggrieved at not obtaining the same, he
may appeal to the Department, whose decision shall be final,
and take power to revoke any licence granted by it.
(2.) The appeal shall be made in such manner and subject
to such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations made
under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1908,” or any
amendment thereof.
6. Sunday Entertainments.—No concert or entertainment
of any kind shall be given to the public, whether for the
purpose of pecuniary emolument or not, held or made on any
Sunday, without the written consent of the Department.
and always on condition that no intoxicating liquor be sold on
the premises, as the Department may impose. The Department may cancel or otherwise withdraw any such consent on a particular case or class of cases.
7. Resident Officer may enter Buildings.—The Resident
Officer or other officer authorized by the Department in that
behalf may at all reasonable times enter and inspect any such
licensed building at any time.
8. Penalty for not having a Licence.—If any owner or
occupier of a building has the same in use for such public
uses it, or allows it to be used, for any of the purposes above
mentioned without having obtained the requisite licence, he shall
be liable to a penalty as hereinafter provided by the Department under its statutory power in that behalf, he shall
be liable to a penalty as hereinafter provided, besides any other
penalties under other laws in force at the time of the offence.
Under doors.—No outer door of any licensed building
shall be left unguarded by anyone inside it during the time that it is used for the public, except by a watchman.
Exit doors.—Every exit door shall be left unlocked to give free egress, and every door that is not an exit door shall be so marked.
9. Workshops.—(1.) The owner or occupier of every licensed
building, having a seating accommodation as hereinafter
provided, and in case it be a place of public assembly, shall be
at all times provided with at least one hydrant, properly
installed on the premises, as the Department may require, and
such other appliances as it may require.
Lighting.—Every building shall be supplied with at least two
lights, properly installed on the premises, as the Department
may require, and such other appliances as it may require.

1. Churches.—(As in Laws 1 to 10 inclusive) under this Part
   of these by-laws, shall not at any time be so used for the
   purposes of trade or business, but shall at all times be used for
   the purposes of worship.
2. Maximum accommodation.—The seating accommodation of
   a licensed building shall be on the basis of 5 square feet of
   floor space per person, if benches be used, or one person per
   square yard, if seats be used; and in case it be a place of
   public assembly, the maximum accommodation shall be 100
   persons, including any persons who are in the building, whether
   or not they be seated, and in no case shall more than the
   maximum number be allowed to be in the building at any one
   time.
   The Sanitary Conveniences.—The owner of every licensed
   building shall at all times be provided with such sanitary and
   urinal accommodation in connection with every licensed
   building as may be required by the Department.
   Fee for licence.—The fee for a licence under this Part to be
   paid to the Resident Officer the appropriate licence fee as follows:
   For every building not exceeding—
   For every assembly or concert hall, £3 per annum.
   For every building licensed as a temporary or temporary
   enclosure used for any public performance or public
   amusement for a period of one calendar month or any
   less period, £5.
   For every bowling or skittle alley or shooting-gallery
   £3 per annum.
   For every billiard-hall £4 per annum.
   No license shall be payable in respect of any building
   exclusively used for educational purposes.
3. Expiry of Licence.—Every licence, at whatever time of
   the year it may have been granted, shall expire on the 31st day
   of December.
4. Interpretation.—In all the preceding provisions under
   this Part of these by-laws, the word “building” includes any
   part of a building, or any ground or premises whatsoever.
   PART X.—BILLIARD-ROOMS.
5. Definition.—For the purposes of this Part of these by
   laws, “billiard-room” means any building, room, or other place
   or enclosure used for the purpose of playing billiards, nega
   tives, or any similar game, whether for profit or not for profit.
6. Billiard-rooms to be licensed.—No person, being the
   proprietor or person in charge of any billiard-room, shall keep
   or allow the same to be kept as such unless the billiard-room
   is licensed by the Department.
7. Application for Licence.—Every application for a licence
   shall be accompanied by a fee of £4 unless it be made between
   the 1st July and the 31st December, when the fee to be
   accompanied by a fee of £2.
8. Grant of Licence.—A licence shall be in writing under the
   hand of the Department, and shall expire on the 31st day
   of December following the date of issue thereof.
9. Hours.—Every billiard-room shall be closed from
   10 o'clock at night until 8 o'clock on the following morning,
   and on Saturdays it shall be kept closed from 10 o'clock
   at night until 8 o'clock on the following Monday morning.
10. Persons to be excluded.—The licensee shall not allow
    any person to be in the billiard-room during the hours it is
    required to be closed by these by-laws, provided that this
    by-law shall not apply where, for private use only, it is clear
    that the person was lawfully in the billiard-room.
11. No intoxicating liquor.—The licensee shall not allow
    or suffer any intoxicating liquor whatever to be taken into
    or consumed in such billiard-room.
12. Disorderly Conduct.—The licensee shall at all times keep
    the licensed billiard-room to be kept in an orderly manner,
    and he shall expel therefrom any person who creates or is
    carried on therein.
13. Undesirable persons.—The licensee shall not allow or suffer
    any member of the public, apparently under the age of
    sixteen to enter or remain in such billiard-room.
14. Provisions of Police Act.—The provisions of the
    licensee for any offence against this Part of these by-laws or
    against any of the provisions of any other by-law of the
    “The Police Offences Act, 1908,” or for any offence whatever
    against any regulations or by-laws of the Department, the
    licensee may forthwith be cancelled by the General Manager.
    PART XI.—ADVERTISEMENTS, SIGNS, AND HOARDINGS.
15. Signs.—No advertising-sign of any description visible
    from any street or public place shall be affixed to or erected
    except on buildings in which the business or article ad
    vertised is ordinarily carried on, or manufactured, unless or
    until an an advertising-sign has been licensed under this Part of
    by-laws.
16. Hoarding.—(1.) The plans of any proposed hoarding
    showing site and details of construction shall be submitted
    to the General Manager, who, on being satisfied that the site
    and the hoarding shall be licensed after erection in accordance
    with such plans, he to be summoned to the General Manager.
    (2.) A licence for every hoarding shall be annual and shall
    be paid to the Department for all licensed hoardings.
    (3.) A licence shall be in writing under the hand of the
    General Manager, and shall expire on the 31st December of
    every year.
    (4.) Every such licence may be renewed if in the opinion of
    the General Manager, the hoarding in the locality will not
    affect a nuisance, and the licensee shall, on application, at
    least three calendar months' notice that he will not renew
    the licence, but shall not on any account have to renew the
    licence within such three months.
    (5.) Any such licence shall lapse after the coming into operation
    of these by-laws without a licence as aforesaid unless it be
    renewed by the occupier of the premises within one calendar
    month, and in case it be so renewed, it to be given to him
    by the General Manager.
17. Projections over Streets, &c.—No advertising sign or
    hoarding whatever shall project over the street, footway, or
    any public place, unless such sign or hoarding is attached
    to a portable or verandah built in accordance with these by
    laws, and also conforming to this Part of these by-laws.
    PART XII.—ELECTRIC LIGHT.
18. Application for Supply.—(1.) Supply of electric energy
    will be granted to owners or occupiers on making written