Bihar Cinemas (Regulation) Rules, 1974

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    "title": "Bihar Cinemas (Regulation) Rules, 1974",
    "short_title": "Bihar Cinemas (Regulation) Rules, 1974",
    "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. G.S.R. 112 dated 1",
    "act_year": 1974,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
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    "description": "Bihar Cinemas (Regulation) Rules, 1974",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title.",
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            "title": "2. Definition.",
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            "content": "(i) \"Act\" means the Bihar Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1954 (Bihar Act XV of 1954);\n(ii) \"licence\" means a licence granted under the provisions of the Act;\n(iii) \"licensing authority\" means the authority referred to in section 4 of the Act;\n(iv) \"person\" means any adult male or female individual and includes any company or association or body of individuals, whether incorporated or not;\n(v) \"permanent building\" means a building which is constructed for permanent use with stone, mud brick mortar, cement or other noninflammable material;\n(vi) \"temporary building\" means a building which is not a permanent building;\n(vii) \"licensee' means a person who is granted a licence in accordance with these rules and includes a person appointed, under intimation in writing to the licensing authority, as his agent;\n[(viia) \"corrupt practice\" includes purchase and sale of tickets at a price higher than that stated on the face of the tickets] ; and\n(viii) words and expressions used in these rules but not defined herein shall have the same meanings as assigned to them in the Act.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Procedure for the grant of permission for constructing permanent Cinema House.",
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            "content": "[Appendix A]\n[Appendix A]\n( See Rule 3)\n(a) Exact area and dimensions of the site.\n(b) Right of way (width) of the adjoining roads and lanes up to a minimum distance of 500 yards.\n(c) The exact location of sites where the following types of buildings are existing:-\n(i) a place of worship;\n(ii) a recognised secondary school or college or any residential institution attached thereto;\n(iii) any other recognised educational institution attached thereto;\n(iv) a public hospital or a hospital with an indoor patient ward;\n(v) an orphanage containing one hundred or more inmates;\n(vi) any other places considered to be unsuitable for this purpose;\n(d) Commercial establishments already functioning in the vicinity of the proposed cinema site.\n(a) The exact dimensions of the plot.\n(b) The exact location in outline of the proposed Cinema and other buildings indication with dimensions the distance between the proposed buildings and the property lines.\n(c) Clear demarcation of ingress egress hand of pedestrian and vehicular traffic.\n(d) The exact location with numbers of parking of Cars, Scooter, Motor Cycles and Cycles.\n(e) The right-of way (Width) of roads proposed in the approved Master Plan, Zonal Development Plan or any other development scheme drawn by the competent authorities in the area functioning under various Acts.\n(a) Bihar and Orissa Municipal Act, 1922.\n(b) Patna Municipal Corporation Act, 1951.\n(c) Bihar Restriction of Uses of Land Act, 1948.\n(d) Bihar Town Planning and Improvement Trust Act, 1951.\n(e) Bihar Regional Development Authority Ordinance, 1977.\n(ii) All such applications shall be considered at a meeting of the Cinema Advisory committee consisting of the Licensing Authority. Superintendent of Police, Civil Surgeon, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department (Building) and the Chairman of the Municipal Body, if there be one in the town for which licence is sought and an Officer incharge of the Town Planning Organisation or an Officer authorised by him in this behalf.\n(iii) On receipt of an application, the Licensing authority shall cause to be pasted in the Civil and Criminal Court of Local Jurisdiction, the office of the local Municipal Body or any other conspicuous place in locality a notice specifying therein the name and address of the applicant and the building and site plans with plot number, tauzi number, thana number and mauza or village or town inviting objections from the persons interested or the generally public within 15 days of the date of notice regarding the suitability of site for a permanent cinema house.\n(iv) For disposal of all such applications or the objections, if any, filed within the stipulated period, the Licensing Authority shall hold a meeting of the Cinema Advisory Committee. The Committee shall submit its findings in writing to the Licensing Authority who shall send to the State Government his recommendations regarding the suitability of the site and the desirability of granting permission for construction of a permanent cinema house thereupon. The decision of the State Government shall be final.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Restriction in regard to the locations of Cinema.",
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            "content": "(i) a place of worship;\n(ii) a recognised Secondary School or College or any residential institution attached thereto;\n(iii) any other recognised educational institution attached thereto;\n(iv) a public hospital or a hospital with an indoor patient ward;\n(v) an orphanage containing one hundred or more inmates;\n(iv) any other place declared unsuitable by the State Government for this purpose.\n(b) No permanent or temporary Cinema shall be allowed to be constructed on the site which may upset the Master Plan or in any thickly populated area which is either exclusively residential or a restricted area or used generally for residential purpose as distinguished from business purpose:\n(c) Space for parking of car, etc. - No permanent Cinema house shall be allowed to be constructed unless it has provision for adequate space in its compound or in its vicinity for parking cars, cycles and other vehicles, queues of spectators which may be formed and the public to pass without obstructing any public road of traffic. The State Government may from time to time notify the standard for lay out of parking space and other open space.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Approval of building plans of Cinema house.",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Time limit for construction of permanent Cinema Building.",
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            "content": "(ii) Persons aggrieved by the order of a licensing authority under sub-rule (i) shall have a right of [appeal] against such order to the State Government or any person or authority specially appointed by the State Government for the purpose.",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Extension of time-limit in certain cases.",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Grant of licence.",
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            "content": "(ii) [x x x x x]",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Power of licensing authority to refuse licence.",
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            "content": "(ii) Any order of a licensing authority refusing licence shall be appealable. The appeal shall lie before the State Government or any other authority appointed by the State Government for purpose:",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Period of validity of permanent licence.",
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            "content": "[For a permanent/temporary/touring Cinema:-\nNumber of a seats.\nLicence fee for a period of three months.\nLicence fee for a period exceeding three months but not\n\t\t\t\t\texceeding six months.\nLicence fee for a period exceeding six months but not\n\t\t\t\t\texceeding one year.\nUp to 200\n150\n300\n600\n210 to 500\n250\n500\n1000\n501 to 1000\n350\n770\n1,430\nExceeding 1000\n500\n1,000\n2,000]\n11.\n[12. Inspection.\n(b) The premises shall be inspected from time to time by Cinema Inspector specially appointed by the State Government for the purpose who will see that terms and conditions of the licence are not being violated and shall submit their report to the licensing authority.\n(ii) The State Government may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, revoke or suspend the licence granted by the licensing authority at any time or take such other action as it may think fit:",
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Temporary licence.",
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            "content": "(b) The validity of temporary Cinema licence beyond the initial period of one year may be extended by the licensing authority with the approval of the State Government if the holder of the licence has obtained the permission to construct a permanent Cinema house subject to the following conditions namely:-\n(1) The site offered for a permanent Cinema house has been finally selected.\n(2) Necessary steps have been taken by the holders of the licence for construction of a permanent Cinema house.\n(3) The holder of the licence has been unable to complete his permanent Cinema houses during the validity of his temporary Cinema licence for [one year] due to circumstances over which he has no control.\n[(c) Any licensee aggrieved by the orders of the licensing authority,may appeal, within one month from the date of order before the Divisional Commissioner having local jurisdiction:\n[14. Licence for occasional cinematograph exhibition.\n(a) for a period exceeding [three months] at a time;\n(b) for any exhibition for the purpose for which electrical energy is generated or used for lighting the auditorium or operating the projector unless the electrical inspector or an officer, deputed by him for the purpose has inspected the electrical apparatus and the fees are paid in accordance with the relevant provisions:\n(c) unless application is made thereof at least two weeks before the date on which it is proposed to give the first exhibition.]",
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            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Power to impose additional conditions.",
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            "content": "[15A. Special Appeal.",
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        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Power of State Government to issue direction.",
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            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. General suitability of the building.",
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            "content": "(a) as a hotel, boarding or lodging house or for residential purposes by day or night;\n(b) as a factory or workshop or for storage purpose.\n(i) a plan of the auditorium showing the dimensions of the gangways, the number and situation of the exits, the number of persons, which may be accommodated in each portion of the auditorium, and\n(ii) a single line writing diagram showing details of the entire electrical installation the point of supply to the last light and fan.",
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            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Fire precaution.",
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            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Projection and fire precaution enclosure.",
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        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Cinematograph machine.",
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        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Films.",
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            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Operators.",
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            "content": "Note. - The licensing authority may, at his discretion depute another magistrate to test the qualification of an operator.\nNote.",
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            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Electrical installation.",
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            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Emergency lighting.",
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            "content": "(a) Lights serving to illuminate every doorway, lobby, staircase, corridor, and other portions of the theatre to which the public may have access either generally or in case of emergency hereinafter referred to as \"exit emergency light.\"\n(b) Not less than two lights serving to illuminate the auditorium (hereinafter referred to as \"auditorium emergency light.\")\n(a) have a source of supply entirely separate from the source of supply to the auditorium projection room and stage lighting; or\n(b) if the supply is generated at a source not situated upon the licensed premises, it shall be fed through independent service fuses : or\n(c) if the supply is generated at a source situated upon the licensed premises, it shall be fed through independent main fuses.",
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            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Fee for inspection etc.",
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            "content": "[26. Display of posters.\n[27. Procedure for sale of any ticket or pass for admission.\n(a) Air Conditioned - 3 per ticket\n(b) Air cooled - 2.50 per ticket\n(c) Others - 2 per ticker]\n[28. Restriction on sale of tickets.\nNotifications\nNotifications\nS.O. 1484 the 5th December, 1983.\n(a) Plannings standard for the construction of permanent Cinema houses in rural areas.\n(a) Plannings standard for the construction of permanent Cinema houses in rural areas.\nAmenities.\nCinema houses with seating capacity of 250.\nCinema houses with seating capacity of 251 to\n 500.\nCinema houses with the seating capacity of 501\n and more.\n1\n2\n3\n4\n1.\nMinimum breath of the plot.\nNo minimum standard prescribed.\nNo minimum prescribed.\nNo. minimum standard prescribed.\n2.\nMinimum breadth of the front road Set backs-\n9 metres\n9 metres\n9 metres\n3.\n(a) Front\n4.5 metres\n9 metres\n9 metres.\n(b) Both sides\nNil\n3 metres\n4 metres.\n(c) Back\n3.0 metres\n3 metres\n4 metres.\nFor Parking-\n(a) Car/tractor\nNil\n1% of the total seating capacity (215.0 sq. ft./100 seats)\n1.5% of the total capacity (323 sq. ft. /100 seats).\n(b) Motor cycle/Scooter.\nNil\n4% of the total seating capacity (129 sq. ft./100 seats.)\n6% of the total seating capacity (194 sq. ft./100 seats.)\n(c) Cycle\nNil\n15% of the total seating capacity (226 sq. ft./100 seats).\n20% of the total seating capacity (301 sq. ft./100 seats).\n(d) Minimum area per seat\n0.55 square metre (6 sq. ft.)\n0.55 sq. metres (6. sq. ft.)\n0.55 sq. metres (6 sq. ft.)\nNote . - Parking space for motor vehicles, scooter and cycle would not be less than 20. 4 sq. metres and 3.3 sq. metres respectively.\nNote\n(b) Planning standard for the construction of permanent cinema houses in towns with the maximum population of 50 thousand.\n(b) Planning standard for the construction of permanent cinema houses in towns with the maximum population of 50 thousand.\nAmenities\nCinema houses with the seating capacity of 500.\nCinema houses with the seating capacity of 501\n and more.\n1.\nMinimum breadth of the area.\nNo Standard minimum prescribed.\n25 metres.\n2.\nMinimum breadth of the road facing the cinema house.\n9 metres.\n13 metres.\nSet backs-\nFront\n9 metres\n9 metres\nBoth sides\n4 metres\n4 metres.\nBack\n4 metres\n4 metres.\nParking-\nMotorcycle/scooter\n1.5% of the total seating capacity (323 sq. ft/100 seats).\n2.0% of the total seating capacity (430 sq. ft./100 seats).\nMotor Car\n6% of the total seating capacity (194 sq. ft./100)\n8% of total capacity (258 sq. ft./100 seats).\nCycle\n20% of the total seating capacity (301 sq. ft./100 seats).\n20% of the total seating capacity (301 sq. ft./100 seats).\nMinimum space per seat\n0.55 sq. metres (6 sq 0.55 ft).\nsq. metres (6 sq. ft).\nMinimum breadth of the area (space)\nNo minimum standard prescribed.\n30 metres.\nNote. - Parking space for motor vehicle, scooter and cycle would not be less than 20.3.3.0 and 1, 4 square metres respectively.\nNote.\n(c) Planning standard for the construction of permanent cinema houses in towns having a population from 50 thousand to 2 lakhs.\n(c) Planning standard for the construction of permanent cinema houses in towns having a population from 50 thousand to 2 lakhs.\nAmenities\nCinema houses with the seating capacity of 500.\nCinema houses with the seating capacity of 501\n and more.\nMinimum breadth of the road facing the cinema house.\n13 metres\n18 metres.\nSet back-\nFront\n9 metres\n9 metres.\nBoth sides\n4 metres\n6 metres.\nBack\n4 metres\n5 metres.\nParking-\nCar\n2% of the total seating capacity (430.0 sq. ft./ 100 seats)\n3.2% of the total seating capacity (710.0 sq. ft./100 seats).\nMotor cycle/scooter\n8% of the total seating capacity (258.0 sq. ft./ 100 seats)\n10% of the total seating capacity (323.0 sq. ft./100 seats.)\nCycle\n20% of the total seating capacity (301.0 sq ft./100 seats)\n25% of the total seating capacity (377 sq. ft./100 seats).\nMinimum space per seat\n0.55 sq. metres (6 sq. ft.)\n0.65 sq. metres (7 sq. ft.)\nNote. - Parking space for motor car, scooter and cycle would not be less than 20.0,3,0 and 4.4 sq. metres, respectively.\nNote.\n(d) Planning standard for the construction of permanent cinema houses in towns having a population of more than 2 lakhs.\n(d) Planning standard for the construction of permanent cinema houses in towns having a population of more than 2 lakhs.\nAmenities\nCinema houses with the seating capacity of 500.\nCinema houses with the seating capacity of 501\n and more.\nMinimum breadth of the area.\nNo minimum standard prescribed.\n35 metres.\nMinimum breadth of the road facing the cinema house.\n13 metres\n20 metres.\nSet back-\nFront\n9 metres\n9 metres.\nBoth sides\n4 metres\n6 metres.\nBack\n4 metres\n6 metres.\nFor parking-\nCar\n3.3% of the total seating capacity (710 sq. ft./100 chairs).\n3.3% of the total seating capacity (710sq. ft./100 chairs).\nMotorcycle\n10% of total seating capacity (323 sq. ft./100 chairs.)\n10% of total seating capacity (323 sq. ft./ 100 charis.)\nCycle\n25% of total seating capacity (377 sq. ft./ 100 chairs).\n25% of total seating capacity (377 sq. ft./ 100 chairs).\nMinimum area per chair\n0.55 sq. metres (6 sq. ft.)\n0.65 sq. metres (7 sq. ft.)\nNote. - Parking place for car should not be less than 20.0 sq metres and parking place for a scooter and a cycle should not be less than 3 sq metres and 4 sq metres respectively,\nNote.\n(1) Construction of cinema houses in towns would be permitted only in those areas which are located in commercial and industrial areas under the present plans or have been shown as proposed commercial and industrial areas in the master plan.\n(2) On the basis of the master plan for towns the construction of cinema houses would be permitted in the neighbourhood centres also shown in the residential area.\n(3) No permission would be given for construction of cinema houses within 75 metres of the following places:-\n(a) Approved or old place of worship.\n(b) School etc. recognised by the Government.\n(c) Hospital with 50 or more beds.\n(4) On a single piece of plot, permission for constructing more than one cinema house would be given provided all kinds of security requirements have been taken care of. But each cinema should have at least two sides open to the sky.\n(5) Where permission for constructing cinema house adjacent to within or in the compound of another building proposed to be used can be accorded on the basis of the master plan or its-bye-laws, such permission may be given for constructing the cinema house only on the ground floor and not in the basement or on the upper floors.\n(6) No portion of a cinema house is to be used as factory, workshop, store or hotel etc, but for the sake of running the cinema house permission to start a few shops, office room and restaurant would be given. Before such permission is given all kinds of security requirement should however, be observed, such as separate arrangement etc., should be made for entry to the cinema house.\n(7) If permission is accorded for construction of a cinema house in a commercial complex neighbourhood or city centre complex then permission for constructing a common parking place would be given keeping in view the parking requirements of all those buildings which are to be constructed in the entire complex.\n(8) In any cinema plot the room available within the set-backs can be kept for parking. At both the sides and back a space of at least 4 metres and at front at least a space of 9 metres respectively should, however be left vacant for plying of vehicles and pedestrians.\n(9) Land would be secured from the plot of the applicant for the purpose of the minimum breadth to roads on the basis of the master plan in a town having the same even if such minimum breadth is equal or more than the recommended planning standard. But at those places where the breadth of the existing road is less than the one recommended in the master plan then in that case permission for constructing cinema house on that road would only be given if the breadth of the existing road is not less than 9 metres.\n(10) Permission for constructing portion of any cinema house within both the sides or at the back side of the proposed set back will not be given. But at the front side set back permission would be given for constructing balcony up to 3 metres breadth a height of at least 2 metres.\n(11) Provisions regarding safety, location and entry etc, made in the Cinema Code and Fire Safety Code of the Indian Standard Institution should be taken care of while designing a cinema house.\n(12) The term of 2 years under rule 6 of the Bihar Cinema (Regulation) Rules be read as 5 (five) years term.\nS.O.1368 dated the 12th October, 1982.\nS.O.48 dated the 13th January, 1982.\nAmendments\nAmendments\n(B) All types of film posters to be posted at different bazars and lanes shall have to be sent to the licensing authority for approval by cinema owners in writing with two copies of the relevant paper/posters relating to the concerned film/films.\n(C) The licensing authority shall issue the certificate immediately indicating terms suitable for unrestricted or restricted public exhibition on roads or lanes etc.\n(D) Where cinema owner is informed that a particular obsence film poster which is different from the scene of approved film is required to be restricted for being given publicity, such poster shall have to be kept out from being posted on roads and lanes.\n(E) A certificate to be granted by the Licensing Authority under this rule shall be liable to cancellation in respect of which the certificate has been granted being exhibited in a form other than that was proposed before the Licensing Authority for certification.\n(F) The owner of the cinema who acts against the provisions of these rules shall be fined by the Licensing Authority which shall range from Rs. 500 to Rs. 1,000.\n(G) An appeal by the cinema owners against the certificate of the Licensing Authority shall have to be filed to the State Government whose decision shall be final.\n(H) In case of display of uncensored film posters the Appellate Authority on receipt of representation from the cinema owner concerned may condone such officers, if the Licensing Authority recommends that such violation has occurred through inadvertence.]",
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        "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. G.S.R. 112 dated 11th October 1974",
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        "Short Title": "Bihar Cinemas (Regulation) Rules, 1974",
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