Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corpn

Subject Matter

LICENSING — Cinematograph — Sunday performances — Licence — Condition that “no children under the age of fifteen years shall be admitted to any entertainments whether accompanied by adult or not” — Action by licensees — Claim for declaration that condition ultra vires or unreasonable — Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 1, sub-s. 1.

[1947] EWCA Civ 1; [1948] 1 KB 223; [1947] 2 All ER 680; 45 LGR 635; 63 TLR 623; (1947) 177 LT 641; (1948) 92 SJ 26, CA

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