(1) The following fire fighting appliances shall be provided in every cinema or multiplex building, namely:-
(a) In projection room-
(i) One water gel blanket
(ii) Two buckets of water, each of 09 liters capacity.
(iii) Two carbon dioxide extinguishers, each of two kg capacity and one carbon dioxide extinguisher of 5 kg capacity.
(b) In auditorium and balcony.-
(i) Four ABC powder extinguishers, each of 5 kg capacity in the auditorium and two such extinguishers in the balcony wherever balcony is in existence.
(ii) Two stirrup pumps attached with flexible hoses of not less than six meters in length in the auditorium and one stirrup pump in the balcony wherever balcony is in existence. Each stirrup pump shall be provided with two flat bottom buckets each of ten liters capacity to be kept always filled with water; and inbuilt firefighting equipment as required shall be provided.
(iii) Two carbon dioxide extinguishers, each of two kg capacity and one carbon dioxide extinguisher of 5 kg capacity.
(iv) One fire bucket of ten liters capacity filled with water for every one hundred square meters of floor area or part thereof with a minimum of twelve buckets in the auditorium and two in the balcony.
(c) Near electrical installation,-
(i) One ABC powder extinguishers of 5 kg capacity near each main switch board.
(ii) Wherever electrical meters, rotary convertors or any other electrical machinery or apparatus are installed, one ABC powder extinguisher of 5 kg capacity shall be provided.
(2) All fire fighting appliances shall be kept in such a manner as to be readily available for use. The majority of the fire fighting appliances in the auditorium shall be fitted in the neighborhood of the screen at a height of 1.20 m.
(3) The fire buckets shall have round bottoms, each of 9 liters capacity. They shall be painted red with the word “Fire” in large white letters in English, Hindi and Kannada filled with clean, dry sand.
(4) All the portable extinguishers shall be maintained periodically and subjected to hydraulic pressure test at the jurisdictional Fire Station or an engineering firm authorized in this behalf by the Government, to show that it can withstand for one minute a pressure of twenty kg/cm2 and a certificate of such test shall be submitted to the Licensing Authority.
Similar tests shall be repeated annually thereafter.
(5) The attendants, staff including the cinema operator of