1988 Ed.]
Film Censorship
[CAP. 392
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CHAPTER 392
FILM CENSORSHIP
To 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.
[10 November 1988] L.N. 249/88
Originally 25 of 1988
74.N.242 of 1ppp.
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short title
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Film Censorship Ordinance.
Interpretation
2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
"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;
"adviser" means an adviser appointed to the panel of advisers under section 6(2);
"Authority" means the Film Censorship Authority established by section 3;
"Board" means the Board of Review established by section 16(1);
"censor" means a censor appointed under section 5;
"cigarette advertisement" has the meaning assigned to it by section 14 of the Smoking (Public Health) Ordinance (Cap. 371);
"exercise”, in relation to any function, includes perform and discharge;
"exhibition", in relation to a film, means the screening of the film in Hong Kong-
(a) at any place of public entertainment within the meaning of section 2 of the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance (Cap. 172);
(b) at any public place within the meaning of section 3 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1) which is not a place of public entertainment referred to in paragraph (a); or
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