Cinematograph Film Hire Duty (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 47/1968

Read the first time on 3rd December 1968.

An Act to amend the Cinematograph Film Hire Duty Act, 1966 (No. 8 of 1966).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows: —

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Cinematograph Film Hire Duty (Amendment) Act, 1968, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 10

2. Subsection (1) of section 10 of the Cinematograph Film Hire Duty Act, 1966, is hereby deleted and the following substituted therefor: —

“(1) For the purposes of this Act, in calculating the gross receipts derived or deemed to have been derived from the renting of films, there shall be included —

(a)	gross receipts from trailers; and
(b)	receipts from the sale or hire of accessories, advertising materials or other things used in connection with the distribution or exhibition of films if those receipts in the aggregate exceed ten per cent of the gross receipts derived or deemed to have been derived from the renting of films or exceed an amount of fifty dollars, whichever is the lesser.”.

New section 16A

3. The Cinematograph Film Hire Duty Act, 1966, is hereby amended by inserting immediately after section 16 thereof the following new section: —

“Compounding of offences

16A. A senior officer of customs authorised in that behalf by the Comptroller may compound any offence under sections 5(3), 5 (5), 6 (3), 8 (4), 8 (7), 12 (2) and 13 (2) of this Act or any rules made thereunder by accepting from the person reasonably suspected of having committed an offence a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.”.

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