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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1987

HE SAID. "THE FIRST POINT IS A THOROUGHLY BAD ONE, BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN THE RULE OF AND IF APOWER IS WRONGLY EXERCISED BY THE ADMINISTRATION, IN

"HE MAINTAINED THAT BOTH POINTS WERE BAD,

THE PUBLIC JUDICIAL REVIEW.

INTEREST

THEN IT

THAT SUCH AN ABUSE OF POWER BE PUT RIGHT

LAW,

IS

BY

"

SUPPOSE I NEED $3 ΤΟ HIM: 'MAY I

TO ILLUSTRATE HIS SECOND POINT MR LEE SAID: FROM A FRIEND IN ORDER TO BUY A MTR TICKET AND I SAY HAVE YOUR WALLET SO THAT I CAN HAVE $3 TO BUY MYSELF A TICKET?' MUST SAY THAT ONCE I HAVE YOUR WALLET, I WILL TAKE MORE THAN $3.

"WILL MY FRIEND IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCE LET ME HAVE HIS

HE ASKED.

BUT I

WALLET?"

THE POWER JUSTIFIED AND YET IT WILL BE

ALLOW MR LEE SAID: "THIS COUNCIL IS BEING ASKED TO GIVEN TO THE CENSOR TO CONTINUE ON THE BASIS THAT IT CAN BE

THREE AREAS, UNDER ARTICLE 19 OF THE SAID COVENANT IN ONLY THIS COUNCIL IS TOLD THAT ONCE THE POWER IS LEFT INTACT, APPLIED TO OTHER AREAS NOT MENTIONED IN ARTICLE 19.

"IS THE

ADMINISTRATION

NOT

INSULTING

INTELLIGENCE THE

OF

MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL?"

AN AMENDMENT ΤΟ THE MR LEE SAID HIS THIRD REASON FOR MOVING

THAT INTERIM MEASURES WAS DUE TO THE ADMINISTRATION'S FAILURE TO SHOW

BECAUSE OF THE UNLAWFUL THE RESTRICTION WAS NECESSARY, PRINCIPALLY

GIVEN ΤΟ HIM FOR EXERCISE BY THE CENSOR OF A POWER WHICH WAS NEVER OVER 30 YEARS.

FILMS HAD BEEN BANNED ON POLITICAL PUBLIC CANNOT JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES WOULD HAVE ON OUR COMMUNITY.

"DURING THIS PERIOD, MANY GROUNDS, WITH THE RESULT THAT THE WHAT EFFECT THESE

"IF MY

FILMS

IS MOTION

CARRIED,

THEN AT LEAST

THE FILM UNTIL IN A FEW MONTHS'

CENSORSHIP BILL 1987 IS PRESENTED TO THIS COUNCIL TIME, THERE WILL BE NO POLITICAL CENSORSHIP OF FILMS IN HONG KONG.

FILM

WHETHER WE NEED A "THE PUBLIC CAN THEN JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES

ΤΟ

IT A BAN

IF

IS NAMELY, BILL, SIMILAR PROVISION IN THE

OUTSIDE HONG 'SERIOUSLY PREJUDICIAL TO GOOD RELATIONS TO TERRITORIES KONG'.

IS DEFEATED "BUT IF MY MOTION WHETHER THERE IS A REAL NECESSITY FOR IT."

TODAY,

WE WILL NEVER KNOW

MR LEE SAID HE DID NOT SEE ANY POWER FOR SUCH A SHORT TIME.

DANGER

SUSPENDING IN

SUCH A

ON THE POLITICAL CENSORSHIP OF FILMS,

MR LEE SAID AS HONG

EXTREMELY`

HAD A

LIKELY

EFFECT

OF

KONG WAS MOVING TOWARDS 1997, THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG WERE CONCERNED ABOUT

LEGISLATION ANY

INFRINGING ANY OF THEIR FREEDOMS.

WHICH

/"WE ARE

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