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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1987
FOUR KOREA, HE
HE ADDED NOT A1. THE FILMS BANNED WERE CRITICAL OF CHINA.
SOUTH ONE OF FRANCE AND ONE OF WERE CRITICAL OF THE .S SAID.
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"FOR ALL THE YEARS THAT HONG KONG 11AS HAD THIS AUTHORITIES HAVE EXEM 1SED IT SPARINGLY," HE STRESSED.
REGULATION THE
OF HONG KONG
EXPECTED WAS
MR FORD DELIVED THAT THE PEOPLE DIFFERENT STANDARDS TO BE APPLIED TO THE CENSORSHIP OF FILMS THAN APPLIED TO THE PRINT MEDIA.
VIVID
HE SAID THE IMPACT OF FILMS WAS MORE IMMEDIATE AND MORE
GATHERED TOGETHER IN AND BECAUSE THEY WERE SHOWN TO LARGE AUDIENCES
BE PROVOKED BY THEM COULD BE ONE PLACE, THE REACTIONS THAT COULD QUITE DRAMATIC.
"WHAT SEER TO BE CLEAR FROM ALL THE MANY SURVEYS THAT HAVE
CENSORS IN THIS FIELD IS THAT THE STANDARDS THE
HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN
MAJORITY OF APPLIED IN THE PAST LAVE BEEN BROADLY ACCEPTABLE TO HONG KONG'S PEOPLE, MR FORD SAID.
·
THE
NOTING THAT HONG KONG HAD
RAD THIS REGULATION
SOME 14 MEDIA,
FOR PRINT TO THE YEARS AND HAD NEVER SEEN THE NEED TO EXTEND IT MR FORD SAID THERE WAS NO REASON WHY THE VIEW SHOULD BE CHANGED.
ON A HE SAID THE FUIENSION OF THESE REGULATIONS WAS
STRICTLY IN CONSIDERING THE NEW TEMPORARY BASIS.
FILM CENSORSHIP BILL THE THE PRINCIPLE THAT ONLY THE MINIMUM OF RESTRICTIONS ON THE FREEDOM OF INDIVIDUAL SHOULD BE IMPOSED HAD AGAIN BEEN APPLIED.
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WOULD
HE MR FORD SAID
VFW BILL, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN APRIL FOR PUBLIC INFORMAT 101
AND COMMENT,
FURTHER LIMIT THE POWERS
THE OF
CENSORS. "OLDER THE AILL THE COMPOSITION OF THE FILM CENSORSHIP APPEAL BOARD WILL BE CHANGED SUBSTANTIALLY," HE SAID,
THE DECISION AS TO
"THIS WILL MEABLE GREATER PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN
THE FINAL WHETHER OR NOT A FILM IS SHOWN IN THE HANDS OF A MAJORITY OF
CENSORSHIP PROCESS AND WILL INDEED PLACE
UNOFFICIALS RATHER THAN A MAJORITY OF OFFICIALS ADDED.
AS
AT
PRESENT,
L
HE
BILL HE SAID THE
WAS INTENDED TO BE INTRODUCED INTO THE
AS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
SOON AS PRACTICABLE IN THE NEXT SESSION SUBJECT TO THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL'S APPROVAL.
OUT HE POINTED
THAT THE FILM CENSORSHIP REGULATIONS 1987 TABLED BEFORE THE COURTL WERE DESIGNED FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF PUTTING BEYOND DOUBT THE LEGAL BASIS OF THE
FILM CENSORSHIP
PRACTICES.
CURRENT
"AS SUCH TURY PO NO MORE THAN PROVIDE THE FRAMEWORK то ENABLE THE EXISTING CENSORS LIP PRACTICES TO BE CONTINUED."
"THE MAKING OF THESE REGULATIONS IS WITHOUT
OF THE NEW FILM CENSORSHIP
WHEN
CONSIDERATION REGULATIONS WILL BE REVOKED
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PLACE, MR FORD ADDED.
NEW
PERMANENT
PREJUDICE
TO THE
BILL 1987. THESE LEGISLATION IS IN
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