Read the full judgment text of HCAL 000022/2004 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 20 January 2005.
1. This application for judicial review looks to the powers of the licensing authority established in terms of s.3B of the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance, Cap.172 (‘the Ordinance’). The Ordinance provides for the licensing of any place where ‘public entertainment’ is to be staged. ‘Public entertainment’ is defined in s.2 of the Ordinance and means “any entertainment within the meaning of this Ordinance to which the general public is admitted with or without payment”. As for the conc