The defendant operated an amusement arcade which provided video amusement games. The authority required a licence saying that it was an ‘exhibition of a moving image’. The Association appealed.
Held: A video amusement game was not within the Act. On its true construction, the Act referred to a show and not an amusement game.
Lord Griffiths construed the term ‘cinematograph exhibition’ as excluding video games because the use of the term immediately brought to mind a film show.
Judges:
Lord Griffiths
Citations:
[1988] 1 All ER 740
Statutes:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Oxfordshire County Council v Oxford City Council and others HL 24-May-2006
Application had been made to register as a town or village green an area of land which was largely a boggy marsh. The local authority resisted the application wanting to use the land instead for housing. It then rejected advice it received from a . .
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Licensing
Updated: 29 April 2022; Ref: scu.188797
