Supplementary to Question No. 4.
Legco meeting on 8.7.87.
indicate
Mr.
DESMOND LEE:
confirm
or
Order
Ordinance is
rumour-mongering,
sir, would the Administration kindly
otherwise if section 27 of the
Public
from
necessary to protect the community
which might undermine confidence in this
territory and accordingly confirm, or to indicate otherwise,
that offending rumour-mongers ought therefore to be prosecuted
under the section, particularly in the light of the fact that
no defence has been put forward to bolster the truth of these
rumours ?.
Attorney General: Sir, as to the first part of the question,
yes; as to the second part of the question, I do not know what
case Mr. LEE is referring to. If it is a hypothetical case, I
could not comment on it.
Mr. MARTIN LEE:
sir, will the Attorney General please
elaborate his brief oral answer which has been deliberately
withheld from Members of this Council, contrary to convention,
which asks that written answers be supplied to Members of this
Council prior to the commencement of a sitting, by informing
this Council whether his decision not to prosecute anybody has
been the result of consideration that we are dealing with
a
pro-Peking publication ?