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TELECOMMUNICATION ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 106).

TELECOMMUNICATION EXEMPTION (REDIFFUSION TELEVISION SUBSCRIBERS) ORDER 1967.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 39 of the Tele- communication Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following order

1. This order may be cited as the Telecommunication Exemption (Rediffusion Television Subscribers) Order 1967.

Citation.

2. In this order-

Interpretation.

"subscriber” means a person who is a subscriber to the service

provided by a television distribution station,

"elevision distribution station” means a station maintained and worked under and in accordance with the licence to establish a wired television service gramed by the Governor in Council to Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Limited on the 26th day of February 1957;

"television viewing screen" means—

(a) a television viewing screen and associated sound ap- paratus connected by means of wires to a television dis- tribution station; or

(6) a television viewing screen referred to in paragraph (a) which is also capable of receiving television programmes by radiocommunication from a broadcast television station.

3. A subscriber shall be exempted from the provisions of section 8 of the Telecommunication Ordinance (which prohibits, inter alia, the possession of apparatus for cadiocommunication otherwise than under and in accordance with a licence) in respect of a television viewing screen.

4. The Telecommunication Exemption (Rediffusion Televi- sion Subscribers) Order is cancelled.

COUNCIL CHAMBER.

5th December 1967,

F.M. Rudards

Clerk of Councils.

Exemption. ICE. 15.4

Cancellation. (Cap. 106, sab. leg.)