GABORONE CITY COUNCIL (SMOKING IN CINEMAS) BYE-LAWS
(under regulations 34 and 35)
(16th April, 1971)
ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS
BYE-LAWS
1. Citation
2. Smoking in cinemas prohibited
3. Penalties
S.I. 54, 1971
These Bye-laws may be cited as the Gaborone City Council (Smoking in Cinemas) Bye-laws*.
*Originally made under the Township Act now repealed, these regulations have been continued under s 94(2) of the Local Government Act, 2013.
2. Smoking in cinemas prohibited
(1) No person shall smoke tobacco or any other substance in a pipe or in the form of a cigar, cheroot, cigarillo or cigarette or in any other form or manner in any cinema, theatre, hall or roofed and enclosed place in which a public meeting, service, entertainment, recital or performance is being held, shown or given.
(2) This bye-law shall not apply to any performer while engaged in playing a part in any theatrical performance.
Any person who contravenes bye-law 2 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on a first conviction to a fine not exceeding P10 or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 days and on a subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding P50 or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two months.