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from any other printed advertising material, and so, this provision was removed from the bill.
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Mr. YEUNG's statement on the need to maintain consistent standards in dealing with such advertisements, I can confirm that besides the Attorney General, only the Police, the Customs and Excise, and the Commissioner for Television
and Entertainment Licensing, have delegated authority to
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and those related to other publications, through the Commissioner for Television and Entertainment Licensing, in the first instance, thereby ensuring a consistent approach at the
initial stage of enforcement.
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The Honourable Selina Chow has expressed concern over possible problems arising out of the nature of work and lack of career
We structure for the film inspectors which number five. cannot anticipate all such problems but we have taken advice
Corruption from the Prevention Department of the ICAG and we will be establishing procedures to minimise corruption opportunities. This principally involves rotating the inspectors between different districts. If and when other problems should arise, we will deal with them in the light of experience
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I am grateful to Miss Chow for her suggestion that consideration should be given to seconding officers from other disciplinary
While I can see services to carry out inspection duties. some attraction in the idea, I rather suspect that my Finance Branch colleagues may well conclude that to use highly trained law enforcement officers to perform inspection duties in such a restricted area, would not be value for money.
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