Rules governing exhibition of films and use of apparatus Censor to stamp films Certificate to be exhibited Regulations exchanges, (2) There shall be an appeal from the censor or board of censors to the person, body or Court designated, and subject to the conditions prescribed, by regulation of the Lieutenant Governor in Council. 13. No person shall by means of a cinematograph, moving picture machine or other similar apparatus (a) exhibit any film until the same has been stamped by the censor or board of censors; or (b) use any such apparatus until he has complied with the regulations made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. 14. The censor or board of censors shall cause every film which is permitted to be exhibited to be stamped with a stamp indicating his or its approval. 15. A certificate containing the name of the film, the name of the maker, and the exchange and license number shall be issued by the Provincial Secretary in respect of all films permitted by the censor or board of censors or permitted by him or it to be exhibited and such certificate shall be displayed in the box office of the theatre in such manner as to be subject to the observation of all persons entering the theatre. 16. The Lieutenant Governor in Council shall have power to make regulations respecting (a) the exchanging, leasing and sale of films; (b) the fees to be paid to the censor by film exchanges; (c) the fees to be paid to the censor in respect of special features; (d) the persons by whom and the manner in which such fees are to be paid and collected; (e) the attendance of children at any entertainment hall to which this Act refers; (f) the destruction or removal of posters, advertisements, lithographs, notices, signs or other drawings, writings, or displays which are indecent or have an immoral, degrading or objectionable tendency and determining the persons by whom such destruction or removal is to be effected and forbidding the use of any film or slide in connection with which any such drawing, writing or display is issued, in the event of failure to comply with the order for destruction or removal; (g) the classification of films as family pictures or pictures for universal exhibition or on any other system of division, and prescribing denoting marks or words to be used with respect to any class in ad vertisements or other printed, written or pictorial PART II. of operator 17. No person shall use any cinematograph or other simi- Examination lar apparatus in any theatre or entertainment hall until he has passed an examination as to competency and paid a license fee not exceeding the sum of ten dollars. of license 18. The Chief Inspector of Theatres, who shall be ap- Revocation pointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, may at any time and for cause, revoke any such license or suspend the same for any period. re safety of persons, subjects of of projection 19. The Lieutenant Governor in Council shall have power Regulations from time to time, to make regulations the same or different for different localities, governing in general, the erection, examination, operation and safety as regards fire and otherwise of all construction classes of theatres and entertainment halls; and to provide rooms, etc. for the supervision and inspection of the same; and in particular, but without affecting the generality of the foregoing, the Lieutenant Governor in Council shall have power to prescribe (a) the subjects of examination for projectionists or operators of moving picture machines; (b) the conditions of admission to such examinations; (c) the division of licenses into classes; (d) the work which may be performed by members of (e) the ways in which theatres and projection rooms (h) regulations as to the keeping and storage of films; Penalty Inspection by police Enforcement of Act Penalties paid to the Provincial Treasurer Effect of regulations made under this Act Repeal Coming into force of Act (i) regulations regarding the confiscation, seizure and sale of any apparatus or properties of any film exchange, owner, user or exhibitor used in contravention of this Act or of the regulations made from time to time hereunder. GENERAL. 20. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act, or any of the regulations of the Lieutenant Governor in Council passed hereunder, for which no express penalty is provided, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, with costs, and to a further fine of twenty-five dollars per diem for so long after conviction as such violation continues, and in default of immediate payment thereof to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months. 21. All members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, all members of the Alberta Provincial Police and all provincial constables, are hereby empowered at any time to inspect any cinematograph, moving picture machine, or other similar apparatus which is used or kept on premises licensed under this Act, and are directed to enforce the provisions of this Act and the regulations passed hereunder. 22. In every city, town and village, it shall also be the duty of the chief constable or chief of police to enforce the provisions of this Act and the regulations passed hereunder. 23. All penalties recovered under this Act shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer for the use of the Province. 24. The existing regulations purporting to be made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council under the provisions of The Theatres Act, shall have the same effect as if they were set out in this Act, insofar as they do not contradict the provisions hereof; subject, however, to the right of the Lieutenant Governor in Council to repeal, alter or vary any or all of such regulations. 25. The Lieutenant Governor in Council shall have power to prescribe the causes for which a license may be revoked or suspended. 26. The Theatres Act, being chapter 188 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is hereby repealed. 27. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to. H CHAPTER 47. An Act to amend The Dental Association Act. (Assented to April 2, 1927.) IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Dental Association Act Short title Amendment Act, 1927." added 2. The Dental Association Act, being chapter 204 of the Section 28 Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is amended by adding as section 28, the following: "28.-(1) No person shall advertise or hold himself out to the public as a specialist or as being specially qualified in any particular branch of dentistry or dental work, without having received from the Registrar of the University of Alberta a certificate of having complied with such conditions precedent as to qualification or fitness as may be prescribed by the Senate of the said University. "(2) The said conditions may be based either upon the Qualifications possession of certain diplomas or other professional quali- of specialists fications, or upon compliance with prescribed tests, by way of examination or otherwise. "(3) Any breach of this section shall be deemed to be unbecoming and improper conduct, within the meaning of section 31 of this Act. "(4) This section shall come into force upon a date to be fixed by Proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor in Council." section 38 3. Section 38 of the said Act is hereby struck out and the New following substituted therefor: of physicians in restorative "38.-(1) Nothing in this Act contained shall affect the Examination privileges conferred upon physicians and surgeons by any or surgeons Act relating to the practice of medicine and surgery in this or prosthetic Province, but no physician or surgeon shall practise restora- dentistry tive or prosthetic dentistry without first having passed such examination therein, as may be prescribed by the University of Alberta. "(2) Upon passing such examination he shall be entitled to obtain a license to practise dentistry from the Board of Directors upon paying the prescribed fee." 4. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which Coming into it is assented to. force of Act |