### Miscellaneous Licences Regulations 《雜類牌照規例》

17. Offences and penalties
Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of regulation 10, 15, 16, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78(1), 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127 or 128(1), commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(L.N. 301 of 1976; 54 of 1978 s. 3; L.N. 86 of 1982; 53 of 1983 s. 18; 64 of 1993 s. 24; 11 of 1995 s. 18; 13 of 1995 s. 2; L.N. 587 of 1995; L.N. 130 of 1999)

57. Form
The form of a public dance hall licence shall be that in Form 6 in the Second Schedule.
(G.N. 500 of 1941)

58. Application for licence
A person requiring a licence to open or keep any premises as a public dance hall shall when making application for the same furnish to the licensing authority 2 copies of his photograph.

### Miscellaneous Licences Regulations 《雜類牌照規例》

58A. Minimum dancing area
(1) After the commencement of the Miscellaneous Licences (Amendment) Regulations 1965 (L.N. 110 of 1965) no new public dance hall licence shall be issued or renewed, and after the expiry of a period of 24 months from the commencement of such regulations no public dance hall licence issued before the commencement of such regulations shall be renewed, in respect of any premises in which the total unobstructed dancing area available to persons resorting thereto for the purpose of dancing is less than 46 square metres.
(2) It shall be a condition of every new public dance hall licence issued or renewed after the commencement of the aforesaid regulations and of every public dance hall licence renewed after the expiry of a period of 24 months from the commencement of the aforesaid regulations that at all times when the premises are open to the public for dancing the total unobstructed dancing area available to persons resorting thereto for the purpose of dancing is not less than 46 square metres.
(L.N. 110 of 1965; L.N. 372 of 1984)

59. Outdoor sign
Every person licensed to keep a public dance hall shall exhibit and keep exhibited the words “Licensed for dancing” in English and in Chinese the characters “已領有跳舞牌照” in some conspicuous place near the door and on the outside of the premises to the satisfaction of the licensing authority.

60. Only approved assistants to be employed
Every person licensed to keep a public dance hall shall employ in the premises only such assistants as the licensing authority may approve.

61. Register of dancing partners, etc.
(Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 59 of 2000 s. 3)
Every person licensed to keep a public dance hall shall keep a register at the premises and shall correctly enter therein the names, age, sex, nationality, birthplace and place of residence in Hong Kong of every dancing partner and other person employed in the premises and shall affix thereto a photograph of every such dancing partner and employee.
(59 of 2000 s. 3)

62. Return of dancing partners, etc.
On the first day of every month every person licensed to keep a public dance hall shall make a return in writing to the licensing authority in such form as he may approve of the particulars required to be entered in the register, relating to every dancing partner and other person then employed in the premises.

### Miscellaneous Licences Regulations 《雜類牌照規例》

63. Minimum age for employees and persons present in the premises
(1) No person under the age of 18 years shall be employed in the premises.
(2) No person under the age of 16 years shall be permitted to be present, at any time when the public are not excluded from the premises, in any part of the premises available to the public.
(L.N. 110 of 1965)

64. Sleeping on premises
No person other than the licensee, members of his family, his agent, or watchman, and no person employed as a dancing partner shall sleep or be permitted to sleep on the licensed premises.

67. Sale or consumption of liquors
No intoxicating liquors shall be sold or consumed in the premises, except under and in accordance with the terms of a valid licence in that behalf granted in respect of such premises.

68. Good order in premises
Every person licensed to keep a public dance hall shall maintain good order in the premises and shall not suffer or permit therein—
(a) any profanity or impropriety of language;
(b) any indecency of dress, dance or gesture;
(c) any offensive personalities or representations of living persons or anything calculated to produce riot or breach of the peace;
(d) any drunkenness or other disorderly conduct;
(e) any unlawful game; or
(f) any persons of notoriously bad character to assemble and meet together.

69. Lighting
The premises shall be lighted throughout by gas or electricity from the mains of a public utility company, and, except by and in accordance with the special permission of the licensing authority, no candle, oil lamp or other form of illumination shall be used therein.

69A. Prohibition of partitions and screens
The licensee shall not erect, place or have any partition or screen in any part of the premises available to the public.
(L.N. 110 of 1965)