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TELECOMMUNICATION ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 106).

TELECOMMUNICATION EXEMPTION (REDIFFUSION TELEVISION SUBSCRIBERS) ORDER 1968.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 39 of the Telecommunication Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following order-

1. This order may be cited as the Telecommunication Exemption (Rediffusion Television Subscribers) Order 1968.

1. In this order-

"domestic premises" means any premises or place used exclusively for residential purposes and constituting a separate household unit: "subscriber" means a person who is a subscriber to the service

provided by a television distribution station;

"television distribution station" means a station maintained and worked under and in accordance with the licence to establish a wired television service granted by the Governor in Council to Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Limited on the 26th day of February 1957;

"television viewing screen” means-

(a) a television viewing screen and associated sound appa- ratus connected by means of wires to a television distribu- tion station; or

(b) a television viewing screen referred to in paragraph (a) which is also capable of receiving television programmes by radiocommunication from a broadcast television station;

(c) a television viewing screen which receives only television programmes by radiocommunication from a broadcası television station.

* A subscriber shall be exempted from the provisions of section 8 of the Telecommunication Ordinance (which prohibits. inter alia, the possession of apparatus for radiocommunication otherwise than under and in accordance with a licence) in respect of-

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(a) any number of television viewing screens, or portable television viewing screens operated by self-contained electric batteries, kept by him within the domestic prem- ises to which a television distribution station is connected;

Citation.

Interpretation.

Exemption.

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