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WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1993
IMMIGRATION
INDUSTRY
TRADE
RE-ENTRY PERMIT AND MISC FEES
FEES FOR HK LABORATORY ACCREDITATION SCHEME
TEXTILE LICENCES AND MISC FEES
ANCHORAGE PLANS OFF TUEN MUN FAR ADVANCED * * * * *
THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR ALISTAIR ASPREY, SAID PLANS ΤΟ ESTABLISH AN IMMIGRATION ANCHORAGE OFF TUEN MUN WERE FAR ADVANCED.
IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON HOWARD YOUNG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING TODAY (WEDNESDAY), MR ASPREY SAID: "WE HOPE TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE RESOURCES FOR IT TO COME INTO OPERATION NEXT YEAR.'
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HE SAID THE RESOURCES REQUIRED WERE ABOUT $1M CAPITAL EXPENDITURE, AND $4M FOR YEAR RECURRENT EXPENDITURE.
THE GOVERNMENT ESTIMATES THAT THERE WILL BE A 39 PER CENT REDUCTION IN VESSEL MOVEMENTS IN THE MA WAN CHANNEL WHEN THE ANCHORAGE COMES INTO OPERATION. THIS APPROXIMATELY EQUALS 220 VESSEL MOVEMENTS THROUGH THE CHANNEL.
PROSECUTIONS TAKEN AGAINST INDECENT FILM POSTERS
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THE GOVERNMENT TOOK OUT FIVE PROSECUTIONS AGAINST INDECENT FILM POSTERS LAST YEAR, THE SECRETARY FOR RECREATION AND CULTURE, MR JAMES SO, SAID.
THIS HAD RESULTED IN THREE CONVICTIONS INVOLVING TWO POSTERS. ANOTHER THREE CASES ARE STILL PENDING COURT HEARINGS, MR SO ADDED.
REPLYING ΤΟ A QUESTION BY THE HON ERIC LI KA-CHEUNG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY), MR SO SAID OF THE THREE CONVICTIONS, ONE FILM DISTRIBUTOR WAS FINED $20,000 AND TWO THEATRE OPERATORS WERE FINED $20,000 AND $10,000 RESPECTIVELY.
SAID.
NONE OF THESE FIVE CASES ORIGINATED FROM PUBLIC COMPLAINTS, HE
BETWEEN JANUARY 1991 AND JUNE THIS YEAR, 72 FILM POSTERS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE OBSCENE ARTICLES TRIBUNAL FOR CLASSIFICATION.
/OF THEM,