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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1988

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CONSULTATION PERIOD FOR EDUCATION REPORT EXTENDED

NO. 3 WILL BE EXTENDED EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, THE HON DOMINIC COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE CONSULTATION PERIOD FOR

BY TWO

THE EDUCATION COMMISSION REPORT MONTHS, THE ACTING

WONG, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE

SECRETARY

FOR

REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON SZETO WAH, MR WONG

THE CONSULTATION EXTENSION MEANT THAT OCTOBER 15.

PERIOD

WOULD

NOW

SAID THE END ON

AND

"THE EXTENSION WILL, I BELIEVE, GIVE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC VARIOUS INTERESTED GROUPS ADEQUATE TIME TO PRESENT THEIR VIEWS ON THE TWO SUBJECTS LISTED FOR CONSULTATION,"

HE SAID.

L

OF THE REPORT

MR WONG POINTED OUT THAT SINCE THE PUBLICATION

MANPOWER BRANCH HAD BEEN MONITORING ON JUNE 16, THE EDUCATION AND

PUBLIC OPINION.

"WE

HAVE ALSO BEEN INVOLVED DISCUSSING WITH VARIOUS INTERESTED GROUPS,

--

IN BRIEFING AND EXTENSIVELY

HE EXPLAINED.

OPINIO "MANY PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY EXPRESSED THEIR OPINION IN OR ANOTHER."

ONE FORM

IE ADDED THAT SEVERAL

THEY THAT

THE ΤΟ INDICATED HAD ALSO GROUPS

TO RESPOND WITHIN THE ABLE NOT BE GOVERNMENT

WOULD TWO-MONTH CONSULTATION PERIOD BECAUSE OF REAL LOGISTICAL DIFFICULTIES.

WONG SAID THE

AFTER HAVING CONSIDERED ALL THESE REQUESTS, MR GOVERNMENT HAD THEREFORE DECIDED TO EXTEND THE CONSULTATION PERIOD.

ACTION TAKEN AGAINST OFFENDING COMICS

SUFFICIENT

WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF THE POLICE AND THE PUBLIC,

RETAILERS THAT SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTIONS HAD BEEN OBTAINED TO CONVINCE

INDECENT MATERIAL THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT RISK IN SELLING OBSCENE OR

SERVICES AND FOR ADMINISTRATIVE THE SECRETARY TO YOUNG PEOPLE,

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY INFORMATION, THE HON PETER TSAO, TOLD THE (WEDNESDAY).

MR TSAO SAID REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON CHAN YING-LUN,

BOOKS DEPICTING VIOLENCE AND

THE AUTHORITIES WERE AWARE THAT COMIC SEX HAD BEEN AVAILABLE AT CERTAIN COMMERCIAL OUTLETS FOR SOME TIME.

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