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Entertainment Licensing has published a set of guidelines which highlight the more important features of the new legislation and provide some administrative guidance on the standards which the monitoring authorities will adopt. This guidance has no standing in law but follows the precedent set by the publication, in 1985, of similar guidelines on Objectionable Publications Ordinance.
Financial implications
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the
The cost of publishing notices of submitting requests for review or reconsideration initiated by the Crown, as well as the costs of remunerating adjudicators, will be borne by general revenue. It is not possible to estimate the extent to which these services will be required until the system is functioning but expenditure will be carefully monitored and, if necessary, supplementary provision would be sought in the normal way.
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It is difficult to estimate the additional revenue without the likely workload. However, it is intended that revenue from
from voluntary submissions will cover the costs of statutory notices and related administrative costs, and revenue from searching and inspecting the repository will offset the cost of running the repository. In the case of search fees and extracts, these fees generally correspond to the fees for similar public services. The fees will be subject to regular
reviews.
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There are no other financial implications.
Public reaction
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The public is unlikely to be interested in the proposed regulations but will welcome the Ordinance coming into operation. There are likely to be some adverse comments from the trade on the level of fees for submissions, reviews and reconsiderations.
Publicity
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release press
regulations when gazetted.
will be issued to explain the It will point out that the fees are for recovering the cost of publishing statutory notices by the Registrar, Supreme Court.
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