STAGE PLAYS AND PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS ACT.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

   Section

PART I
INTERPRETATION.

   1.   Interpretation.

PART II
LICENSING OF THEATRES.

   2.   Licensing of theatres and safety of persons attending them.

   3.   Supervision to ensure safety.

PART III
PERMITS FOR STAGE PLAYS AND PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS.

   4.   Permit for performance of stage play.

   5.   Submission of stage play and description of public entertainment for which permit is required.

   6.   Consideration of applications for entertainment permits by the Commission.

   7.   Refusal of permits.

   8.   Free permits.

   9.   Exhibition of posters.

PART IV
GENERAL.

   10.   Duty of owner of theatre.

   11.   Power of entry.

   12.   Cruelty to animals.

   13.   Appeal to Minister.

   14.   No person to be excluded from public performance on ground of race.

   15.   Permits for private performances in licensed theatres.

   16.   Commission's power to order surrender of script.

   17.   Rules.

   18.   Minister may declare any entertainment to be public.

   19.   Offences and penalties.

CHAPTER 49
STAGE PLAYS AND PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENTS ACT.

Commencement: 30 September, 1943.

   An Act to provide for the regulation and control of stage plays and public entertainments.

PART I
INTERPRETATION.

1.   Interpretation.

   In this Act—

   (a)   "Commission" means the Uganda Communications Commission established under the Uganda Communications Act;

   (b)   "licensing authority" means the Commission of a city or municipality or the Commission of a town in which a theatre is situated or, in places outside a city, municipality or town, a board consisting of the chief executive officer of the administration, the medical officer of health and an engineer of the Ministry responsible for works and such other persons, if any, as the Minister may appoint;

   (c)   "poster" means any picture, drawing, painting, photograph, figure or other device advertising any stage play or public entertainment;

   (d)   "public entertainment" includes any concert, animal or circus performance, waxworks, puppet performance, dancing exhibition, picture or art exhibition, games of skill or chance, acrobatics or other exhibitions of skill, professional wrestling and boxing bouts to which the public are admitted either gratuitously or otherwise, but shall not include athletic games or sports;

   (e)   "stage play" includes any tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, melodrama, pantomime, dialogue, prologue, epilogue or other dramatic entertainment or any part thereof;

   (f)   "theatre" means any building, tent or other erection of whatever nature, or any premises or land, open to the public gratuitously or otherwise, where any stage play or public entertainment is performed or presented.

PART II
LICENSING OF THEATRES.