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MR THOMAS STRESSED THAT IT WAS NOT PROSPECTIVE BILL THAT COULD BE CALLED INTO THE INTERNATIONAL LAW.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1987

THESE REGULATIONS OR

QUESTION AS BREACHES

THE

OF

"A BREACH COULD ONLY ARISE WHEN SOMEONE IS DENIED THE RIGHT

11 HE CONTINUED. EXPRESS VIEWS OR THE RIGHT TO RECEIVE VIEWS.

TO

VIOLATE

LAW.

WILL

"AND WHETHER AI "BAT POINT THE CENSOR'S DECISION WOULD

UNDER INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS KINGDOM'S THE UNITED NATURALLY DEPEND UPON THE PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES OF THAT CASE.

"ALL ONE CAN

AT BPT.

COULD NOT BE SHOWN

THIS STAGE

IS THAT A

WHO CENSOR SERIES OF FILMS CONSCIENTIOUSLY DECIDED THAT A FILM OR A PARTICULAR

DAMAGING

WITH OTHER GOOD RELATIONS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE RESTRICTIONS

WITHOUT

TERRITORIES WOULD BE ACTING PERMITTED BY THE COVENANT."

ON THE

THIRD

RESTRICTIONS MUST BE

THE THAT IN THE CRITERION

COVENANT

THE PURPOSE THAT WERE TO ACHIEVE NECESSARY

SUCH AS THE NEEDS OF NATIONAL

PLACE.

VARIED

PERMITTED. MR THOMAS SAID CONCEPTS SECURITY AND PUBLIC POLICY COMMUNITY TO COMMUNITY.

FROM

PLACE

TO

AND FROM

NECESSITY FOR RESTRICTIONS

"AND SO WITH THE CONSEQUENT

M HE SAID. THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL,

UPON

A MARGIN AN AUTHORISED GO TO REFLECT ITS

"IT HAS BEEN RECOGNISED THAT A CONTRACTING STATE HAS OF APPRECIATION AS TO WHETHER IT IS NECESSARY TO APPLY

ΤΟ NEEDS RESTRICTION, AND IF IT IS, HOW FAR IT ASSESSMENT OF THE NE÷D."

THIS FORM OF MR THOMAS SAID THE FACT THAT HONG KONG PROVIDED

NOT UNDERMINE THE CENSORSHIP FOR THE EXHIBITION OF FILMS ONLY WOULD CASE THAT THIS RESTRICTION WAS IN CONFORMITY WITH ARTICLE 19.

"THAT IS HONG KONG'S APPRECIATION CIRCUMSTANCES OF THIS TERRITORY.↑

OF THE SPECIAL NEEDS

AND

THAT HONG KONG WAS NOT

IN UNIQUE MR THOMAS ALSO REMARKED

DAMAGE PREVENT

TO ITS SEEKING

POWERS TO USE

OF CENSORSHIP TO

AS RESEARCHES WENT NO RELATIONS WITH OTHER TERRITORIES, AND SO FAR

19 WOULD BE ONE HAD PREVIOUSLY SOUGHT TO MAKE THE CASE THAT ARTICLE INFRINGED BY CENSORSHIP FOR SUCH A PURPOSE.

"GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN TERRITORIES IS OF ALL INTERNATIONAL LAW," HE SAID.

THE FUNDAMENTAL BASIS

SHOULD DOUBT

THE

OF

THE

RIGHT ACCEPTANCE OF "I

WHETHER FILM-MAKERS TO EXPRESS IDEAS WAS INTENDED TO BE CARRIED SO FAR AS TO ENABLE THOSE GOOD RELATIONS TO BE UNDERMINED BY MEANS OF POLITICAL PROPAGANDA THAT IS LIKELY TO CAUSE OFFENCE IN OVERSEAS TERRITORIES."

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