Censorship of Films and Public Entertainments Act · 2002 Revised Edition · Part III · Censorship by Local Censors of Public Entertainments
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
A Local Censor shall, with respect to any public entertainment, have the same power as the Censor has under paragraphs (a), (c) and (d) of subsection (1) of section 5 with respect to a film:
Censor
“Censor” means such members of the Panel of Censors, not being less than 3 in number, as the Secretary shall in any particular case appoint to exercise the duties of censorship hereunder;
Provided that there shall be a right of appeal from any decision of a Local
Censor and that, for the purposes of any such appeal, subsections (3) and (4)
of section 14 shall apply to censorship by a Local Censor in like manner as they apply to censorship by a Censor, but with the substitution therein of the expression “Local Censor” for the expression “Censor”.
Censor
“Censor” means such members of the Panel of Censors, not being less than 3 in number, as the Secretary shall in any particular case appoint to exercise the duties of censorship hereunder;
public entertainment
“public entertainment” includes theatricals, stage plays, wayang-wayang, concerts, animal or circus performances, marionette shows and other dramatic, spectacular or operatic performances of whatsoever nature, to which the public or any class of the Censorship of Films and Public Entertaiments p. 4 public is admitted, whether gratuitously or otherwise, but always excepting cinematograph shows;