ALONS TOO -
Question No. 9 (Written Reply)
Reply by the Chief Secretary
to a question by the Hon. HUI Yin-fat in the Legislative Council on 25 June 1986
Question: Will the Government inform this Council :
Sir,
(a) how
against the
many
have prosecutions
been made
of sale
pornographic video
(b)
(c)
tapes over the past 3 years;
how many convictions were there and what
were their penalties; and
has Government considered any plan to
control the sale of pornographic video
tapes including purchase by mail-order?
Separate records of prosecutions and convictions
for offences relating to video-tapes are
not
available
before January 1985, but a total of 1,078 and 1,237 tapes
were seized in 1983 and 1984 respectively.