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Hong Kong must not allow itself to be used as a
base for propagating propaganda. I believe this point is
well understood and accepted in Hong Kong.
The Ad Hoc Group have suggested that
suggested that the Bill
should specifically require the
the censor to have regard to
freedom of expression. This proposal presents problems.
First, as the proposal gives guidance to the censor it may
be more appropriate to include it in the guidelines to be
issued under clause 30 of the Bill rather than in the Bill
itself. Secondly, as the proposal adds nothing to the
freedom which already exists it is unnecessary.
Consequently no such provision has been made in the Bill.
Such
Present censorship legislation, and also the
drafts published last year, require film advertising
material to be submitted to the Censorship Authority for
examination ΟΙ exemption from examination.
advertising material, usually in the form of posters,
handbills and newspaper advertisements, is part of a very
different medium to the exhibition of films in the
confines of a cinema. We take the view that such material
should be excluded from the censorship requirements of the
Bill.
Nevertheless it will, like all published material,
fall within the ambit of the Control of Obscene
and