7 '87 16:00 TIB (OOU) HK GOVT
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(a)
(b)
to make it an offence to print or publish
anything of a subversive nature;
to provide for the suppression of
newspapers and their publication:
(c) to provide for the prohibition of the
importation of publications;
(d)
to provide for the Registrar of newspapers
to refuse or suspend the registration of
news agencies:
(e)
to provide for the seizure of printing
presses;
(f) to
provide for the search, seizure,
forfeiture and the disposal of articles
used for contravening the Ordinance;
and
(g) to allow the Registror to refuse to
license, or cancel
distributors.
the licence Of
Sir, for some 35 years the community of Hongkong and the media have lived with these provisions as part of
law, amongst them. in the Control of Publications
Consolidation Ordinance in Chapter 268 section 6 was
passage concerned with the publication of false news.
the law,
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