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Speech by the Honourable the Chief Secretary Mr David Ford,/LVO, OBE, JP
in the Legislative Council on 8 July 1987
CHIEF SECRETARY
Sir,
cil
My friend the Attorney General has commented on the question of the compatability of our Film Censorship
legislation with Article 19 of the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights. I would like to comment
more generally on the regulation which is the subject of
this afternoon
this motion/.
The aim of Regulation 3A(7)is to safeguard the interests of Hong Kong by preventing it from being used as
a propaganda base against
against other territories.
In
considering this motion, I hope that Members will give
serious thought to three significant factors. First, the
need to preserve individual freedoms, secondly the
importance to Hong Kong's economy
economy of maintaining good
relations with our trading partners and thirdly, the
particular political and geographical circumstances of
Hong Kong.
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As in so many cases, the Judgement on how to
strike the right balance between the various principles is
a difficult one to make. This problem is reflected in the
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