Amphitheatres/Performance Venues

Applications for hiring the amphitheatres/performance venues should be submitted to the LCSD for its approval before any cultural, recreational and sports activities (e.g. singing, dance practices or musical performances) are conducted at the venues.

The applicant with the approval to use the venue should be one of the users of the venue. Before using the venue, the applicant should go to the park office in person and produce the approval letter for using the venue to the office-in-charge on duty for verification and registration (if applicable).

The volume of the sound emitted during the cultural, recreational and sports activities (e.g. singing practices or musical performances) shall be kept at a reasonably low level in order not to cause noise nuisances to visitors or residents in the neighbourhood. Users shall also comply with the requirements of the Environmental Protection Department and the Noise Control Guidelines for Holding Entertainment Activities at Amphitheatres/Performance Venues. If the sound volume does not conform to the required level, our management staff reserve the right to terminate the activity being conducted by users at the venue immediately.

If the hiring organisation uses amplifiers or loudspeakers for conducting cultural and recreational activities, the amplifiers or loudspeakers shall be placed within the designated areas on stage.

No person shall conduct cultural, entertainment, recreational and sports activities at the amphitheatres/performance venues without the prior permission of the LCSD. The LCSD may terminate the activities immediately and the offenders will be prosecuted.

The hiring organisation shall keep the venue clean during the booked sessions and after the activities.

The hiring organisation shall take away the equipment, props, chairs, tables and miscellaneous items they bring into the venue and shall not store them within the precincts of the amphitheatre/performance venue or place them at any part of the venue.

The hiring organisation shall be responsible for maintaining the crowd control and order of the activity during the period of hire.

All passageways, entrances/exits and staircases shall be kept clear and unobstructed at all times.

10.

No refreshments, drinks, commodities and publicity materials shall be distributed or sold without the prior permission of the LCSD.

11.

No admission fees shall be collected or donations solicited from participants or spectators without the prior permission of the LCSD.

12.

No advertisements, banners and flags shall be displayed at the venue without the prior permission of the LCSD.

13.

No temporary structures shall be erected at the venue without the prior permission of the LCSD.

14.

Other permitted users of the venue or public officers on duty shall not be obstructed during the period of hire.

15.

(i)

The venue shall not be used for any performances in public involving copyrights, including the performance of any drama or musical work and the delivery in public of any lecture or address, without the consent of the copyright owner or his/her authorised agent.

(ii)

If the right to perform musical works in public at the venue belongs to the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Ltd (CASH), the hirer shall be responsible for paying the copyright royalty charges to the CASH.

(iii)

If the sound recordings played in public at the venue are those possessed or managed by the Phonographic Performance (South East Asia) Ltd (PP(SEA)L), the hirer shall be responsible for paying the copyright royalty charges to the PP(SEA)L.

16.

(i)

The hirer or the user shall comply with, and ensure that each of their Related Person(s) shall comply with, all laws applicable to Hong Kong.

(ii)

The hirer or the user and each of their Related Person(s) shall not engage or be involved in any act or activity which:

(a)

contravenes any National Security Laws;

(b)

constitutes or causes the occurrence of an offence endangering national security;

(c)

in the reasonable opinion of LCSD, is likely to constitute or cause the occurrence of an offence endangering national security; or

(d)

in the reasonable opinion of LCSD, is or would be contrary to the interests of national security or the public interest of Hong Kong.

(iii)

For the purpose of Clauses 16(ii) and 17(ii):

(a)

“national security” has the meaning given under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance (6 of 2024);

(b)

“National Security Laws” means all laws and legislation relating to safeguarding of national security which are from time to time in force in or applicable to Hong Kong, including the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as applied in Hong Kong under the Promulgation of National Law 2020 (L.N. 136 of 2020) and the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance;

(c)

“offence endangering national security” has the meaning given under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance;

(d)

“Related Person” of the hirer/user means

(A)

any person who is involved directly or indirectly and in any manner in the hiring or using of the relevant facilities and who is:

(1)

In the case if the hirer/user is a limited company, a shareholder, director, member, employee, agent or contractor of the company;

(2)

in the case if the hirer/user a company limited by guarantee, a member, director, officer, employee, agent or contractor of the company; and

(3)

in all other cases (including that if the hirer/user is an unincorporated entity), a partner, member, officer, employee, agent or contractor of the entity; and

(B)

any person admitted to the venue or facility by the hirer/user;

(e)

for the avoidance of doubt, each of the expressions “engage” and “involve” and its variants includes the act of aiding, abetting, counselling, inciting, promoting and procuring another person to perform or not to perform an act or a matter; and

(f)

a determination by LCSD as to whether any of the circumstances described in Clauses 16(ii)(c), 16(ii)(d) and 17(ii) have arisen shall be final, conclusive and binding on the hirer/user.

17.

Without prejudice to any other rights of LCSD and notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, LCSD reserves the right to cancel any booking and/or terminate the use of the venue or the facility immediately without compensation on any of the following grounds:

(i)

breach of Clause 16 above General Condition; and

(ii)

in the reasonable opinion of LCSD, the use of the venue or the facility by the hirer/user and/or its Related Person(s) is or would be contrary to the interests of national security or the public interest of Hong Kong.

18.

If any person is in breach of the Conditions of Use of Amphitheatres/Performance Venues or the Pleasure Grounds Regulation or other current regulations, the officer-in-charge of the park may not allow the use of the amphitheatre by the person concerned. Under such circumstances, the approval given to the applicant for booking the venue will be cancelled. The LCSD shall not be held responsible for any expenses, charges, losses or damages that may arise directly or indirectly from such cancellation.