posters and 15. (1) No posters, lithographs or other advertise- Censoring of ments depicting scenes from, and intended to be used lithographs or displayed in connection with, a film or slide to be exhibited within Saskatchewan shall be so used or displayed until such posters, lithographs or other advertisements, as the case may be, have been submitted for inspection to, and receive the approval of, the censor or censors. (2) No person shall use or display or cause to be used or displayed any such poster, lithograph or other advertisement which has not been so approved. New. advertisements 16.-(1) No person shall insert or cause to be inserted Newspaper in a newspaper or other periodical an advertisement describing or in any way dealing with a film or slide, which, in the opinion of the censor or censors: (a) is immoral or obscene; (b) suggests lewdness or indecency; (c) offers evil suggestions to the minds of young (d) is for any other reason opposed to the public (2) The censor or censors may require any person to submit before publication, for its approval or rejection, the proofs of proposed advertisements. (3) Any person who, having been required so to do, fails to submit to the censor or censors the proof of an advertisement before its insertion in a newspaper or other periodical, shall be guilty of a violation of this Act. (4) In case the publisher of a newspaper or other periodical inserts therein an advertisement falling within the prohibition contained in the first subsection of this section but does so innocently or inadvertently he shall not be deemed guilty of a violation of this Act. New. of uncensored 17. (1) Any film or slide exhibited which does not Confiscation bear the stamp of the censor or censors shall be liable films to seizure and confiscation, and any owner or film exchange letting to hire, leasing or selling such film or slide and any exhibitor exhibiting the same, shall be guilty of a violation of this Act. (2) Such film or slide may, in the discretion of the provincial secretary, be redeemed within thirty days. from the date of seizure on payment of a fine not exceeding $50 and not less than $10 for each reel of film or for each slide. New. Children under age of 14 Exhibitions on Lord's Day prohibited Penalties Liability for bodily injury or loss of life 18. Children under the age of 14 years shall not, if unaccompanied by a parent or responsible person, be permitted to attend any exhibition by cinematograph, moving picture machine or similar apparatus after the hour of eight o'clock in the evening. 1913, c. 28, s. 10. 19. No exhibition of moving pictures shall be permitted on the Lord's Day except by permit of the provincial secretary; and no film or slide depicting a prize fight shall be shown or exhibited at any time. New. 20. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act or of the regulations thereunder, for the violation of which no penalty is otherwise provided, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $200 with costs, and to a further fine of $25 for every day after conviction during which such offence continues, and in default of immediate payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months. 1913, c. 28, s. 11. 21. If a breach of this Act or of the regulations passed thereunder causes directly or indirectly bodily injury or loss of life, the owner, lessee, manager, operator or other person through or by whom such breach occurred shall, in addition to any other penalty prescribed by law, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year. 1913, c. 28, s. 12. Fees Power of Governor in Repeal Coming into force GENERAL. 22. The fees set forth in the table of fees contained in the schedule to this Act shall be payable in respect of licenses and other matters and services hereunder. New. 23. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may alter or amend the table of fees hereto attached as from time to time may be deemed advisable, but no alteration or amendment shall be effective until notice of the same has been published in two consecutive issues of The Saskatchewan Gazette, naming the date when the change is to come into operation. 1917, c. 34, s. 34 (3). 24. The following enactments are hereby repealed: 4 George V, 1913, c. 28. 7 George V, 1917, c. 34, s. 34. 8 George V, 1917 (sess. 2), c. 49. 9 George V, 1918-19, c. 66. 25. This Act shall come into force on the first day of May, 1920. SCHEDULE. TABLE OF FEES. The license fees under this Act shall be as follows: THEATRE LICENSES. In cities: For every theatre, when the population of the city is 10,000 or over, $250; when the population of the city is less than 10,000, $150; In towns: For every theatre $50; In villages or hamlets: For every theatre $20: Provided that in case a license is issued after the first day of January in any year, the applicant therefor shall be charged such proportion only of the license fee as the number of days remaining between the date of his license and the thirty-first day of December bears to the license fee for the whole year; Provided further that no rebate shall be allowed if the applicant for a license has permitted public performances or other entertainments to be held in the theatre for which the license is required prior to the date of his provincial license. PUBLIC HALLS. In villages, hamlets or rural districts Every film exchange shall pay an annual fee In cities. $2; In towns. $1; $1; . $250 50 10 Every owner of advertisement films, an annual 5 5 5 Every itinerant exhibitor, an annual fee of... Every apprentice, for a six months' license... For censoring films the censor or censors may impose a fee of $2 or less for each reel of 1,000 feet or less. For censoring films of itinerant or special feature exhibitors the censor or censors may impose a fee of $5 or less for each reel of 1,000 feet or less. For censoring slides, fifteen cents each. For censoring advertisement films the following fees shall be charged: 1. Films of less than 100 feet in length, fifty cents; 2. Films of 100 feet and less than 500 feet, $1; 3. Films of 500 feet to 1,000 feet, $2. Any owner or lessee, travelling with a special feature or features, shall pay a license fee of $100 for the right to exhibit same. A duly qualified operator, nonresident in Saskatchewan, may obtain a license from the provincial secretary, good for two months, to operate a moving picture machine for the exhibition of a special feature, on submitting satisfactory evidence of his qualifications as an operator together with a fee of $5. All licenses relating in any way to theatres and public halls are transferable on securing the indorsement of the provincial secretary. All licenses except apprentice licenses issued under this Act shall expire on the thirty-first day of December in each year. CHAPTER 60 An Act to amend The Small Debts Recovery Act. HIS [Assented to February 4, 1920.] [IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, enacts as follows: 1. The Small Debts Recovery Act, being chapter 31 of the statutes of 1913, is amended in the manner hereinafter set forth. 2. (1) The second subsection to section 33 is amended Section 33 by adding thereto the following words: "or if the time for filing notice of appeal has been extended by the judge as hereinafter provided, after the expiration of such extended time if no notice of appeal has been filed in the meantime." (2) Subsection (3) of the said section 33 is repealed and the following substituted therefor: "(3) The clerk of the district court shall not accept a certificate for filing until he has satisfied himself that the said period of ten days or such further time as above provided has elapsed since judgment was pronounced and that no notice of appeal has been filed." 3. Section 38 is amended by striking out the proviso and substituting therefor the following: "Provided that upon the consent of all parties to the action the appeal may be set down and heard at a place where court is appointed to be held other than the place where the cause was tried or the nearest place thereto." (2) amended Section 38 amended 4. Section 39 is repealed and the following substituted New section therefor: 39 appeal "39. The appellant shall give notice of his intention Notice of to appeal by filing in the office of the clerk of the court to which the appeal is made, within ten days after the date upon which judgment was pronounced, a notice in writing setting forth with reasonable certainty the judgment appealed against, and serving a notice thereof upon the opposite party and the justice who tried the case within a reasonable time before the date when the court appealed to is appointed to be held: |