VIDEO FILM SHOWS REGULATIONS

VIDEO FILM SHOWS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 10.34

VIDEO FILM SHOWS REGULATIONS

24th August, 1984

LEGAL NOTICE 43 of 1984, as amended by Legal Notice 407 of 2007.

The title of these regulations is Video Film Shows

Regulations.

It shall not be lawful to hold in any public place or in any

place open to the public any show by means of a video film

projector, without a licence from the Commissioner of Police.

For the issue or renewal of any licence under these

Regulations there shall be payable to the Commissioner of Police

the following fees

(a) in respect of shows by video film

projector held in any premises

licensed as a hotel, restaurant or

catering establishment ............... €116.47 per annum;

(b) in respect of shows by video film

projector held in any trade or

business premises, other than a

hotel, restaurant or catering

establishment, or in respect of

any public place or a place open

to the public .............................. €23.29 per annum.

The provisions of the Police Licences Regulations shall

apply to any licence issued or renewed in accordance with these

Regulations.

Any video film show held in premises licensed under

regulation 3(a) is exempt from tax if held in accordance with the

provisions of the Value Added Tax Act. Any other video film show

is chargeable to tax as provided in that Act.

(1) Any person who contravenes the provisions of these

regulations other than regulation 4, shall commit an offence and

shall on conviction be liable for each offence to a fine (multa) not

exceeding one thousand and one hundred and sixty-four euros and

sixty-nine cents (1,164.69).

(2) Any person who is found guilty of a contravention against

any of the provisions of the Police Licences Regulations, made

applicable to these regulations by regulation 4, shall on conviction

be liable to the penalties laid down in those regulations.