CINEMATOGRAPH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 5 Exceptions for non-commercial exhibitions.

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CINEMATOGRAPH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 5

Exceptions for non-commercial exhibitions.

5.(1) Subject to sub-section (2), the following exemptions shall have effect
in the case of cinematograph exhibitions (in this section referred to as
"exempted exhibitions") to which the public are not admitted or to which the
public are admitted without payment:

(a)a licence under the Act of 1909 shall not be required by reason only of the
giving of an exempted exhibition, and for the purposes of sub-section (2) of
section seven of that Act (which exempts premises used only occasionally for
cinematograph exhibitions) the giving in any premises of an exempted
exhibition shall be disregarded;

(b)section four shall not apply to an exempted exhibition;

(c)regulations made by the Minister under the Act of 1909, being regulations
made by virtue of paragraph (b) of sub-section (2) of section two of this Act,
shall not apply in relation to an exempted exhibition, and regulations made by
the Minister under that Act, being regulations made by virtue of paragraph (a)
of the said sub-section (2), shall not apply in relation to an exempted
exhibition unless given in premises in respect of which a licence under
the Act of 1909 is in force;

(d)in connection with the giving of an exempted exhibition in premises in
respect of which a licence under the Act of 1909 is in force no condition or
restriction on or subject to which the licence was granted shall apply except
in so far as it relates to the matters specified in paragraph (a) of
sub-section (2) of section two.

(2) Without prejudice to paragraph (d) of sub-section (1), paragraph (a) of
that sub-section shall not have effect in the case of exhibitions where the
pictures are produced by means specified by regulations of the Minister under
the Act of 1909 as means involving risk such that it is inexpedient that
paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) should have effect.

(3) For the purposes of this section an exhibition shall not be treated as an
exempted exhibition if organised wholly or mainly as an exhibition for
children who are members of a club, society or association the principal
object of which is attendance at cinematograph exhibitions, so, however, that
this sub-section shall not apply to any exhibition given in a private
dwelling-house or any exhibition given as part of the activities of an
educational or religious institution.

(4) Subject to sub-sections (3) and (5), an exhibition given by an exempted
organisation in any premises shall be treated for the purposes of this section
as an exempted exhibition, notwithstanding payment for admission thereto.

(5) An exhibition shall not be treated for the purposes of this section as an
exempted exhibition by virtue of sub-section (4) if on more than three out of
the last preceding seven days the premises in question were used for the
giving of a cinematograph exhibition which fell to be treated as an exempted
exhibition by virtue of sub-section (4).

(6) In sub-section (4) "exempted organisation" means a society, company,
institution, committee or other organisation as respects which there is in
force at the time of the exhibition in question a certificate of the Ministry
of Home Affairs certifying that that Ministry is satisfied that the
organisation is not conducted or established for profit.

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CINEMATOGRAPH ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1959 - SECT 5