HC Deb 13 November 1928 vol 222 cc659-60
2. Viscount SANDON

asked the President of the Board of Trade how much money, representing how many exhibitors and what proportion of the whole of them, has been paid up to date to the Government in £10 per day fines under Regulations issued under the 1927 Act for non-application to the Board for licences for the exhibition of cinematograph films?

Mr. H. WILLIAMS

The obligation to take out a licence dates only from 1st October last, and already over 4,000 licences have been issued. Proceedings have not up to the present been taken against any exhibitor for failure to apply for a licence.

Viscount SANDON

Can the hon. Gentleman say how many have not applied?

Mr. WILLIAMS

I could not at the moment.

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