14. Restriction on the unauthorized sale of tickets
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entertainment
“entertainment” includes— (a) plays, operas, pantomimes, variety acts, performances of music, singing, dancing, gymnastics, martial art demonstrations, acrobatics and legerdemain, beauty contests, tableaux, demonstrations, displays and parades, in which living persons take part; (b) displays of fireworks, set pieces, commemorative decorations and representations of real or mythical creatures; (c) circuses and exhibitions of animals; (d) exhibitions of models, reading matter, pictures, photographs or of statuary or other forms of representation of human or animal figures; (e) exhibitions of cinematograph films, video movies and puppet-shows; (f) reproductions or transmissions otherwise than in association with a cinematograph film, by any means whatsoever other than telephony or radio telephony, of any music, song or speech; (g) machines and devices by the manipulation of which chances are given of obtaining prizes in money or kind; (h) pin-table and video games; Entertainment (Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur) 7 (i) sporting contests of any kind between any number of persons or animals; (j) organized competitions at games of skill or chance; (k) trade fairs consisting of the exhibition, advertisement or sale of the products of industries or of materials; (l) any combination of any of the above forms of entertainment; (m) any other entertainment which the Minister may, from time to time by order in the Gazette, declare, in any place to which members of the public are admitted with or without payment of money or other consideration;
entertainment in any public thoroughfare, or in the entrance hall of or approaches to any such place, except at a box-office, booth, turnstile or counter appointed by the proprietor or manager of that place or by the organizer of the entertainment held therein.
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than one thousand ringgit but not more than five thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.