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A BILL
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Provide for the establishment of a Film Censorship Authority,
a panel of censors and a panel of advisers, and for
regulating and imposing restrictions on the exhibition
of films; for the approval and classification of films;
for the establishment of a Board of Review; for the
creation of offences; to make consequential and other
amendments to other Ordinances; and for matters
connected therewith.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1.
PART I
PRELIMINARY
This Ordinance may be cited as the Film Censorship
Ordinance 1988 and shall come into operation on a day to be
appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.
2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context
otherwise requires
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"advertising material" means a display, figure, film,
poster, picture or text used or intended to be used
for the purpose of advertising a film exhibited or
intended for exhibition;