The Kerala Cinemas (Regulation) Amendment Act, 1975 [1] Complete Act - Bare Act

Preamble. "WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Kerala Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1958, for the purposes hereinafter appearing;

BE it enacted in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows :"

1. Short title and commencement. "(1) This Act may be called the Kerala Cinemas (Regulation) Amendment Act, 1975.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

2.
Substitution of new section for section 4. "For section 4 of the Kerala Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1958 (32 of 1958) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following section shall be substituted, namely: "

"4. Licensing authority."The authority having power to grant a licence under this Act (hereinafter referred to as the licensing authority) shall be the executive authority of the local authority within whose jurisdiction the place in respect of which the licence is to be granted is situate :

Provided that the Government may, by notification, constitute for the whole or any part of the State such other authority as they may specify in the notification to be the licensing authority for the purposes of this Act:

3. Amendment of section 5. "In section 5 of the principal Act,"

(a) for clause (i) of sub-section (7), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:"

"(i) Where the licensing authority is the executive authority of a local authority and such executive authority has taken the decision or passed the order without the previous concurrence of that local authority, to that local authority; and";

(b) for sub-section (8), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely :"

"(8) Any officer or authority appointed by the Govern ment in this behalf by notification, may, either of his or its own motion or otherwise, call for the records of any case in which an order has been passed in appeal under sub-section (7) and pass such order thereon as he or it thinks fit:

Provided that no order shall be passed under this sub- section without giving the party who may be affected thereby an opportunity of being heard.".

4. Amendment of section 6. "In section 6 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2),"

(a) after the words "as may be prescribed", the words "and with the previous concurrence of the local authority concerned" shall be inserted ;

(b) the following proviso shall be inserted at the end, namely:"

"Provided that the previous concurrence of the local authority shall not be necessary for renewal of a permission under sub-section (1).".

5. Amendment of section 11. "In section 11 of the principal A ct, for the portion beginning with the words and figures "section 13 of the Travancore-Cochin Places of Public Resort Act, 1951" and ending with the words and figures "the Madras Entertainments Tax Act, 1939", the words, figures and brackets "section 10 of the Kerala Local Authorities Entertainments Tax Act, 1961 (20 of 1961)" shall be substituted.

6. Substitution of Schedule. "For the Schedule to the principal Act, the following Schedule shall be substituted, namely :"

"THE SCHEDULE

(
See section 6)

1. The Kerala Panchayats Act, 1960 (32 of 1960)

2. The Kerala Municipalities Act, 1960 (14 of 1961)

The Kerala Municipal Corporations Act, 1961 (30 of 1961)."