Cinematograph. |Ch. 30. No. 10.

(3) Any owner or occupier of property situate within
a quarter of a mile of the premises in respect of which a
licence is applied for and any member of the Police Force
in charge of the Police district in which such premises are
situate shall have the right of appearing before the Licensing
Authority at the hearing, personally or by his counsel, or
solicitor, and of objecting to the granting of the licence and
of adducing evidence in support of his objection.

(+) The Licensing Authority may, at the hearing,
approve the grant of a licence and the conclitions and
restrictions to be attached thereto notwithstanding that the
theatre has not been erected or completed at the time of
such approval: Provided that the licence shall not be issued
until the Licensing Authority is satisfied that the theatre
has been completed, fitted and furnished in accordance
with the plans and specification filed in support of the
application for the licence or after such period as the
Licensing Authority shall, in his diseretion, allow for such
completion, fitting and furnishing.

(5) Any person aggrieved by any decision of the
Licensing Authority approving the grant of a licence or
refusing to grant a licence may appeal from such decision
to the Full Court Provided that for the purposes of this
section any person aggrieved" shall mean the applicant
or any person who is entitled under the provisions of this
section to object to such licence and who shall have appeared
before the Licensing Authority and objected to such licence.

(6) The procedure in respect of any application or of
any appeal in respect of such application shall be such as is
laid down in the Summary Courts Ordinance.

6. (1) Without prejudice to the generality of the discre-
tion vested in the Licensing Authority by section 4, the
Licensing Authority shall, before approving the grant of a
licence, take into consideration the arguments adduced and
the evidence led at the hearing and the situation of the
premises in relation to the amenities of the district such as
its location in a residential area or in close proximity to any
hospital, school, religious establishment, or public or private
institution.

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Restrictions
on the
granting of
a theatre
licence.