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Friday, July 6, 1973
NEW MOVE TO IMPROVE TV RECEPTION
People in Hong Kong will soon be able to improve the television
reception in their homes by erecting aerial distribution systems on the
roofs of the buildings in which they live.
This is the purpose of an amendment to the Telecommunication
Ordinance which is published in the gazette today.
If this amending bill is passed into law it will enable single
receiving aerials designed to serve all the television sets in a building
to be erected on single blocks or adjoining blocks under one ownership,
subject to certain safeguards in respect of public safety and technical
standards, without any formal licensing procedure.
The amending legislation proposed also provides for the exemption
from licensing of closed circuit television systems in private buildings
such as hotels, banks and department stores.
The purpose of this section of the amending bill is to provide
for internal information and security television systems in such private
buildings without recourse to an unwieldy system of licensing.
Commenting on the bill a government spokesman said today that this
proposed freedom from licensing is subject to such installations, both for
aerial distribution systems and closed circuit television systems, complying
with certain prescribed conditions.
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