ACTS

OF THE

LEGISLATURE OF THE PROVINCE
OF MANITOBA

Passed in the Session Held in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of his Majesty
King George the Fifth, being the

FIRST SESSION

-OF-

THE SEVENTEENTH LEGISLATURE

Begun and Holden at Winnipeg on the Eighteenth Day of January, 1923, and Closed by
Prorogation on the Fifth Day of May, 1923

SIR JAMES ALBERT MANNING AIKINS, K.B.

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA:

PRINTED BY PHILIP PURCELL, KING'S PRINTER FOR THE

PROVINCE OF MANITOBA

A.D. 1923

306531

An Act to amend and consolidate the law respecting the regulation and taxation of public amusements

[Assented to May 5th, 1923]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Amusements Act."

INTERPRETATION

Title.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the Definitions. expression:

a

(a) "advertising film" or "advertising slide" means film or slide advertising goods, merchandise or lands, but does not include a film or slide advertising the programmes of the theatre in which the same are exhibited;

(b) "amusement" means any contest, dance, entertainment, exhibition, game (other than taxable games as herein defined), performance, programme or show;

(c) "censor board" means the board of censors or joint board of censors, as the case may be, created and appointed hereunder;

(d) "dancing hall" or "dancing pavilion" means any hall, pavilion, place, premises, room, tent or structure of any kind kept or used for public dancing, and includes a cafe, hotel or restaurant where facilities are supplied and used for public dancing;