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Ventilation:- (i) The building shall be provided with efficient means of ventilation direct to the open air. (ii) Unless the auditorium is air-conditioned the means of ventilation shall take the form of natural ventilation and power-driven exhaust fans suitably located and of adequate size for the purposes intended. (iii) Where natural ventilation is provided by windows of skylights which have to be darkened or obscured, free permanent top ventilation shall be arranged by means of ridge or ceiling ventilators. The clear opening of such ventilators shall not be less than I square foot for every 10 persons that can be accommodated. [(iv) There shall be a time gap of not less than twenty minutes between two cinematograph shows. The duration of an interval in a cinematograph show shall be not less than ten minutes. During the gap between two shows and the interval in a show all doors and ventilators shall be kept wide open and all exhaust and other fans will be worked at top speed so that the whole of the auditorium shall be flushed with air completely]. [31A. Air conditioning and air cooling:- (1) In town having a population of more than fifty thousands, the auditorium shall be air-conditioned within a period of six months: Provided r that when the air-conditioning system is not working in the summer the auditorium shall be provided with the air cooling system; (2) In towns having a population of more than ten thousand but less than fifty thousand, the auditorium shall be air cooled, within a period off three months, provided that the licensing authority may, keeping in view the setting capacity of the auditorium and climatic conditions, require the auditorium to be air conditioned within a period of six months from the date of receipt of notice by the licensing authority. (3) A new license shall not be granted unless the auditorium is air conditioned or air cooled as the case may be.]