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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 17, 1931.
No. 446.
The Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, Ordinance No. 10 of 1899, Table L,
Quarantine Regulations.
It is hereby declared by order of His Excellency the Governor in Council that Pakhoi is a place at which an infectious or contagious disease, namely, plague, prevails.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
16th July, 1931.
Hong Kong.
N. L. SMITH,
Clerk of Councils.
No. 447.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 6 (1) of the Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Ordinance, 1919, Ordinance No. 22 of 1919, on the 16th day of July, 1931.
The regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 6 of the Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Ordinance, 1919, and set forth on pages 769-785 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844-1925, are hereby amended by the rescission of the whole of Part III (on pages 783 and 784) and the substitution of the following Part therefor,-
Part III.
Censoring of cinematograph films and posters.
57. All cinematograph films and posters, hereinafter referred to as films and posters, shall be censored by a Board of Censors, or by a member of such Board, or by some other person authorised in that behalf by the Board in writing with the approval of the Governor. No film or poster shall be exhibited unless it has been censored and passed by the Board of Censors or by a member of such Board or by some other person authorised as aforesaid. 58. The Board of Censors shall consist of the Inspector General of Police, the
Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the Director of Education.
59. Any owner or renter of any film or poster who may be dissatisfied with the decision of any individual censor shall have a right of appeal to the Board of Censors, whose decision shall be final.
60. The fee for censoring films or posters, in any appeal as aforesaid, is $5 per
reel or poster. In all other cases of censoring films the fee is $1 per reel.
61. It shall be the duty of all managers of cinematograph theatres to arrange for the projection or display of all films and posters for censoring at such place as shall be appointed by the Board of Censors.
61A. Cinematograph theatres shall be used for the exhibition of films only and shall not be used for any other purpose without the express permission of the Inspector General of Police.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
16th July, 1931.
N. L. SMITH,
Clerk of Councils.