WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1988
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SPEEDY ICAC INVESTIGATIONS A GENERAL POLICY
THE GENERAL POLICY OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST
OUT CORRUPTION IS THAT ALL INVESTIGATIONS SHOULD BE CARRIED
SPEEDILY
TO AND THAT EVERY EFFORT SHOULD BE MADE
COMPLETE THEM AS SOON AS THE HON POSSIBLE, THE CHIEF SECRETARY,
SIR DAVID
TOLD FORD,
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
SIR DAVID SAID THIS IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO THE HON HILTON EVERY CHEONG-LEEN, WHO ASKED IF LEGCO WOULD BE INFORMED AS TO WHETHER EFFORT WOULD BE MADE TO CONCLUDE INVESTIGATIONS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE FOLLOWING THE RECENT ARREST OF SEVERAL
STOCK
TO EXCHANGE OF HONG KONG, IN ORDER SPECULATION WHICH MIGHT BE DETRIMENTAL TO INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRE.
SIR DAVID SAID: ICAC ARE CONDUCTED IS AGAINST CORRUPTION."
THE OFFICIALS OF
KEEP TO A MINIMUM UNNECESSARY HONG KONG'S IMAGE AS AN
WHICH IN
"THE MANNER AN OPERATIONAL
:
INVESTIGATIONS BY THE MATTER FOR THE COMMISSIONER
IT WAS THE COMMISSIONER'S GENERAL POLICY THAT ALL INVESTIGATIONS SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT AND COMPLETED SPEEDILY.
REFERRING TO THE STOCK EXCHANGE CASE,
SIR
DAVID SAID: "THIS
CASE WILL BE NO EXCEPTION."
204 ARTICLES CLASSIFIED OBSCENE OR INDECENT BY TRIBUNAL
OBSCENE AND INDECENT AMONG THE 214 ARTICLES SUBMITTED TO THE ARTICLES
AND TRIBUNAL FOR CLASSIFICATION BETWEEN LAST SEPTEMBER
WERE CLASSIFIED AS
AND YEAR, 81
OBSCENE
123 AS JANUARY 7 THIS INDECENT.
THE REST WERE CONSIDERED NEITHER OBSCENE NOR INDECENT.
CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON
(WEDNESDAY).
THESE FIGURES WERE RELEASED BY THE SIR DAVID FORD, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY
REPRESENTATIONS
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON PETER C. WONG, SIR DAVID SAID INDECENT PUBLIC REACTION TO THE WORKING OF THE CONTROL OF OBSCENE AND ARTICLES ORDINANCE, IN THE FORM OF MEDIA COMMENTS AND BY THE TRADE AND THE PUBLIC, WAS MONITORED BY TELEVISION AND ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING.
THE COMMISSIONER FOR
HE ADDED REGISTRAR, SUPREME COURT,
THAT
THESE
COMMENTS
HAD BEEN
PASSED
ON
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