(1) No part of the auditorium shall provide accommodation exclusive of passages at a higher scale than 20 persons per 9 square meters.
(2) (a) All seats in the auditorium, except those contained in private boxes shall be firmly secured to the floor. Chairs with folding seats shall be provided wherever required by the Licensing Authority.
(b) Where benches are provided the benches shall have anns suitably fixed so that each seat is separate.
(3) In all cases there shall be distance of at least 30 centimeters between the back of one seat and the front of the seat immediately behind measured between perpendiculars.
(4) The distance between the screen and the front row of seats shall not be less than width of the screen itself:
Provided that, in respect of cinema theatres where cinemascope or some other similar modem technique is installed for screening of films, the distance to be left between the screen and the front row of seats shall be. not less than 3/4 of the effective width, that is, the actual picture width on the screen of the films to be exhibited. Where however, 70 mm. pictures are to be screened, the distance to be left between the screen and each seat in the very front row of seats shall not be less than 11.40 meters.
(5) The seats in the auditorium should be arranged in the manner of an arc, the concave edge of which faces the screen.
(6) Nothing in sub-rule (1), sub-rule (2) so far as they relate to benches, sub-rule (3) and sub-rule (5) shalL apply to premises in any area duly licensed for use for cinematograph exhibition before coming into force of these rules in that area.
(7) Nothing in sub-rules (2), (3), (5) and (6) shall apply to Touring Cinema.