1. The matter arises under the Andhra Pradesh Cinemas (Regulation) Act, 1956 (hereinafter called the Act).
S.6 of the Act excludes the application of all other analogous (provisions) to the construction or reconstruction of a building or the use, or the installation of any machinery in any place or building to be used exclusively for the holding of cinematograph exhibitions. The Act directs that in every such case, an application for licence or permission shall be made to the licensing authority under the Act in accordance with the Rules made in that behalf. Petitioner satisfied all the Rules and made a proper application to the competent authority which is the District Revenue Officer Guntur, for the grant of a permission to construct a cinema theatre in T.S. Nos. 541 and 542 of Kothapeta, Guntur Town. That application was made (?) by th