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POLICE OFFENCES ACT 1935 - SECT 49B

Power of Commissioner to control public entertainments
(1)  Where the Commissioner is of opinion that it is fitting –
(a) for the preservation of public morality, good manners, or decorum; or
(b) to prevent a breach of the peace or danger to a performer or other person –
so to do, he may, with the consent of the Minister, by writing under his hand prohibit or regulate the holding of any public entertainment or a specified part or item of any public entertainment, the terms of any licence notwithstanding.
(2)  A person holding or having the superintendence or management of a public entertainment which, or any part or item of which, is held contrary to a prohibition under this section or any condition so imposed after notice thereof has been given as prescribed is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units.



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