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Altera- tiona or excisions.

Declara-

tions as to duplicates.

Posters. etc.

Official mark.

(2) The censor shall, upon request and within four days of such request, give to any aggrieved person short reasons for his decision,

6. Any alteration or excision which is deemed necessary by the censor may be made by him after notification to the owner or hirer or may be made by the owner or hirer: Provided that any film returned to the owner or hirer for such alteration or excision shall be made available again for purpose of censorship within forty-eight hours and any excluded lengths of film shall be delivered to the censor for retention while the film remains in the Colony: Provided also that no excisions shall be made by the censor except with consent or after the time for appeal under regulation 10 has expired or after any such appeal has been disallowed.

7. (1) The censor and the secretary to the panel of censors are hereby authorized to take a statutory declaration to the effect that a film identified in such declaration is a duplicate, or that films so identified are duplicates, similar in detail, subject-matter, footage and every other way, with a film shewn or to be shewn for censorship,

(2) Any person who makes a statutory declaration under this regulation which is false or incorrect in any material particular shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.

8. (1) Every poster, picture or figure and the text of any advertisement used or intended to be used for the purpose of advertising a film exhibited or intended to be exhibited shall be delivered to the censor, or a replica or reproduction thereof shall with his approval be so delivered, and such further information as he may require shall be furnished therewith.

(z) )The censor may upon examination of any such poster, picture, figure or text either approve publication thereof or refuse to pass it for publication.

9. (1) The secretary to the panel of censors is hereby authorized to adopt, and at his discretion to change or amend where desirable, a censorship mark which shall be prima facie evidence that a film, poster, picture or figure in connexion with which or upon which it is displayed has been censored and approved in accordance with these regulations.

(2) Any person who displays the censorship mark or a mark calculated to be mistaken for the censorship mark in connexion with a film or in connexion with a poster, picture or figure used or to be used for advertisement of a film without the authority of the censor shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.

10. (1) Any owner or hirer of a film, poster, picture or Appeal by figure who is aggrieved by a decision of the censor under these owner or

hirer. regulations shall upon notice in writing delivered to the censor within twenty-eight days of such decision stating the grounds of such appeal be entitled to appeal to a board of review consisting of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Director of Education, The Commissioner of Police and such other persons as may from time to time be nominated by the Governor.

(2) Three members of the board of review shall form a quorum,

(3) The Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall be ex officio the Chairman of the board of review, but in the event of his absence from any meeting of the Board, the members present shall appoint any other of its members as chairman. The Chairman shall have a deliberative and a casting vote.

(4) The board of review shall have all the powers of the censor under these regulations and their decision shall upon promulgation supersede that of the censor in the matter under review.

11. (1) Any person whatsoever who upon mocal, religious, Request educational or other grounds is of opinion that a film exhibited, for review

by other or advertised to be exhibited, should not be so exhibited or persona. continue to be so exhibited may by notice in writing to the Colonial Secretary stating the grounds of such opinion request that such film shall be reviewed by the Board of review referred to in regulation 10. If such film has not previously been referred to such board by way of appeal and adjudicated upon by them, The Colonial Secretary if he thinks fit and subject to such condi- tions as he may think fit (including a condition that the applicant pay or give security for the cost of showing surli film for censor- ship) may order that the film shall be reviewed by the board of review. The Colonial Secretary may, if he thinks fit, further order that such film shall not be exhibited or continue to be exhibited, as the case may be, until it has been so reviewed. Upon review the board shall have all the powers of the censor