Definitions
 
  1. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context: "admission" includes admission as a spectator or as one of an audience, 1(to an entertainment;)
    1 Act No.3 of 1974 has substituted this w.e.f. 25.2.1974.
  2. "admission to an entertainment" includes admission to any place in which an entertainment is held; Note : See: Rule 4 of AP Entertainment Rules, 1939.
    (2A) 1["Cinematograph" includes any apparatus for the representation of moving pictures or series of pictures;] 1 Act No. 23 of 1988 has inserted this sub-section w.e.f. 20.5.1988.
    (2AA) 1["Cinematograph film" includes video films, the sound track and any work produced by any process analogous to cinematography.]
    1 Act No. 23 of 1988 has inserted this sub-section w.e.f. 20.5.1988.
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    1 Act No. 3 of 1974 has omitted this sub-section w.e.f. 25.2.1974.
  4. 1["entertainment" means cinematograph exhibition, to which persons are admitted on payment;]
    1 Act No. 3 of 1974 has substituted this sub-section w.e.f. 25.2.1974.
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    1 Act No. 3 of 1974 has omitted this sub-section w.e.f. 25.2.1974.
  6. "local authority" means -
    1. In the city of Hyderabad and in the city of Secunderabad, excluding the cantonment area, the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, and in the city of Vijayawada, the Municipal Corporation of Vijayawada and in the City of Visakhapatnam, the Municipal Corporation of Visakhapatnam and in any other municipality, the municipal council concerned;
    2. In the Secunderabad Cantonment Area, the Cantonment Board, Secunderabad;
    3. In any area which is comprised within the jurisdiction of a gram panchayat, the gram panchayat concerned;
    4. In any other area, the authority legally entitled to, or entrusted by the State Government with, the control or management of a local fund.
    1 Act No. 24 of 1984 has amended this sub-section w.e.f. 1.1.1984.
  7. "payment of admission" includes -
    1. any payment made by the person who, having been admitted to one part of a place of entertainment, is subsequently admitted to another part thereof, for admission to which a payment involving a tax or a higher tax is required;
    2. any payment for seats or other accommodation in a place of entertainment; and
    3. any payment for purpose whatsoever connected with an entertainment which a person is required to make as a condition of attending or continuing to attend the entertainment in addition to the payment, if any,. for admission to the entertainment;
  8. "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; and
  9. "proprietor" in relation to any entertainment includes any person responsible for the management thereof.
  10. 1"Master Cable Operator" means a person who receives signals from satellite and provides connections to the subscribers either directly or through the Cable Operator from his control room;
    1 This sub-section was added by Act No. 26 of 2002 w.e.f. 01.01.2003
  11. 1"Cable Operator" means a person who receives signals from the Master Cable Operator and provides connections to the subscribers."
    1 This sub-section was added by Act No. 26 of 2002 w.e.f. 01.01.2003.