Stage and other entertainments prohibited except in Licensed Theatres.

3. If after the passing of this Ordinance any person or persons shall within the City of Dunedin or within any other place or places to which the provisions of the "Licensed Theatres Ordinance 1862" have since the passing of the said Ordinance been or to which the provisions of the said Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance shall hereafter be made applicable by Proclamation of the Superintendent in the Provincial Government Gazette (which Proclamation the Superintendent is hereby authorized from time to time to make) act represent or perform or cause to be acted represented or performed for hire gain or reward any stage play or other entertainment of the stage to which admission shall or may be procured by payment of money or by tickets or by the purchase of any article as a condition ol admission or by any other means token or consideration as the price hire or rent of admission or if any person or persons shall take or receive or cause to be taken or received any money goods or valuable tiling whatsoever by way of rent fee or reward for the use or hire of any house room building land tenement or place wherein any such stage play or other entertainment of the stage as aforesaid shall be acted represented performed made done or exhibited or being the owner thereof shall knowingly permit or suffer the same to be so used or applied every such person shall in case the place wherein such stage play or other entertainment shall be acted represented performed made done or exhibited without the written authority or license of the said Superintendent upon conviction forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding £50 to be recovered in a summary way.