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Revocation

of approval.

Feen Schedule.

Rescission

of censor- ship provisions in the

Places of

Public

Entertain-

under these regulations and their decision shall upon promulga- tion supersede the decision (if any) of the censor in the matter under review.

(2) Any person who contravenes an order made under sub- regulation (1) that a film shall not be exhibited or continue to be exihibited shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.

12. The board of review shall have full discretion to revoke any approval given under these regulations.

13. (0) There shall be paid to the secretary to the panel of censors the fees specified in the schedule hereto in respect of the matters therein stated.

(2) The board of review may direct that any fees payable on review by such board be remitted in whole or in part.

14. Regulations 172 to 176 of the Places of Public Entertain- ment Regulations, as renumbered by the Places of Public Enter- tainment (Amendment) Regulations, 1952, are rescinded together with the words "CENSORING OF CINEMATOGRAPH AND POSTERS AND" in the title to Part VI of such regulations as so renumbered.

ment

Regula-

tions.

(Val X. p.

289). (G.N. A87/52).

1.

SCHEDULE OF FEES.

(2)

Matter

Treg. 13.

(2) Fee

Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the rapulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).

The existing regulations governing censorship of films permit censor- ship of films by a board consisting of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Director of Education and the Commissioner of Police, by a member of such board, or by someone authorized by such board. Censors have in fact been appointed by such board from an official panel.

Those regulations are now rescinded and replaced by theac new regulations which provide that the board, which will consist of the Secretary for Chinese Afairs, the Director of Education and the Commissioner of Police, and any other persons nominated by the Governor, will solely met in appeals, and that a secretary to the panel of cansOIN will appoint a member of the panel to perform the duties of censorship,

It is further provided that an aggrieved exhibitor can appeal to the board from any decision of the censor and also that any person who upen moral, religious, educational or other grounds is of opinion that a particular film should not be exhibited may represent to the Colonial Secretary that reference should be made to the board.

The censorship fees which have remained the same since 1946 are revised as set out in the schedule.

(Secretariat 3/516/45)

On film being shown for censorship

(a) short reel or trailer of three hundred feet or

less

(b) short reel or trailer exceeding three hundred feet but not exceeding Eve hundred feet

(c) reel exceeding five hundred feet bat not

exceeding one thousand feet ****SON - ++ (d) reel exceeding one thousand feel

On review by board of review

$ 2.00

G.00

12.00

1.50 per 100 feet DT part thereof.

$ 3.00

104

100 part

Counch, Chamber,

24th November, 1953.

feet

Or

thereof with a minimum fee of $25.00 per reel.

Bench

Clerk of Councils.