Facts
In 1947 a cinema company, Associated Provincial Picture Houses, was granted a licence by the Wednesbury Corporation, the local authority of the market town of Wednesbury in Staffordshire, to operate a cinema on condition that no children under 15 were admitted to the cinema on Sundays. Associated Provincial Picture Houses sought a declaration that such a condition was unacceptable, and outside the power of the Corporation to impose.
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