| [Uttrakhand Act No. 20 of 2015] | [9th November, 2015] |
An Act further to amend the Uttar Pradesh Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1955 (as applicable to the State of Uttarakhand) to the context in the State of Uttarakhand.
Enacted by the Uttarakhand State Legislative Assembly in the Sixty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follow-
It is hereby enacted as follows:
1. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Uttarakhand Cinemas (Regulation) (Amendment) Act, 2015.
(2) It shall extend to whole of the State of Uttarakhand.
(3) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment of Section 2.- In Section 2 of the Uttar Pradesh Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1955 (as applicable to the State of Uttarakhand) shall be substituted as follows, namely-
(a) In clause (aa)-
(i) for the words "any apparatus" the words "any apparatus or electronic digital projection system or any other emerging analogous technology shall be substituted."
(ii) the following explanation shall be inserted at the end, namely-
"Explanations.-Digital projection system is a set of electronic apparatus used for digital cinema exhibition receiving digital print delivery through hard disc or through satellite or otherwise.".
(b) Clause (aaa) shall be substituted as follows, namely-
"Exhibition by means of video means exhibition publicly to the public or in public on payment for admission/or to take payment from public in any form, of moving pictures or series of pictures by playing or replying and a pre-recorded cassette or any other device, by whatever name called by means of a video cassette player or any apparatus or electronic digital projection system or any other emerging analogous technology by whatever name called.".
(c) Clause (g) shall be renamed as clause (h) and clause (g) shall be substituted as follows, namely-
"(g) Video "means any system by whatever name called, of recording on, or reproducing from video cassttes or any other device by whatever name called or transmitting through any recording medium or directly the moving visual images with or without sound".