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HK PEOPLE PROTECTED BY UK OVERSEAS

CONSULAR PROTECTION IS PROVIDED BY BRITISH DIPLOMATIC

KONG RESIDENTS TRAVELLING ABROAD ON TO HONG

HONG KONG BRITISH CITIZENS OR OTHER DOCUMENTS IN THE SAME WAY AS TO NATIONALS.

MISSIONS

TRAVEL BRITISH

STRACHAN, THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON IAN

COUNCIL TODAY THIS IN THE LEGISLATIVE

(WEDNESDAY) IN REPLY QUESTION BY THE HON MARTIN LEE.

"HOWEVER, NO SUCH

SAID

TO VA

PROTECTION CAN BE

BY PROVIDED

HMG (HER HMG HAS INTERESTS

MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT) IN COUNTRIES OR TERRITORIES WITH WHICH

OR WHERE IT HAS NO NO DIPLOMATIC OR CONSULAR RELATIONS SECTION IN ANOTHER COUNTRY'S EMBASSY.

"CURRENTLY, COUNTRIES OR TERRITORIES IN THIS TAIWAN, NORTH KOREA AND ALBANIA, MR STRACHAN SAID.

CATEGORY

INCLUDE

NOTING THAT CONSULAR OR CONSULAR TYPE PROTECTION WAS OF HMG, MR STRACHAN SAID HMG HAD

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS NO CONSULAR REPRESENTATION IN, TAIWAN, AND THERE WERE NO PLANS POSITION TO CHANGE IN FUTURE.

A MATTER OR WITH, FOR THIS

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SHA SPELLS OUT POLICY ON RECEPTION AND BROADCAST OF TV SIGNALS

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THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL HAS ESTABLISHED A POLICY FRAMEWORK GOVERN THE RECEPTION AND BROADCAST OF TELEVISION SIGNALS BY SATELLITE, THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, MR PETER TSAO, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON MISS LEUNG WAI-TUNG, MR TSAO SAID THE POLICY HAD BEEN DESIGNED TO ENABLE HONG KONG PEOPLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO A WIDE RANGE OF TELEVISION PROGRAMMING OFFERED BY MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.

IT HAS ALSO DESIGNED то ENSURE EQUITABLE TREATMENT IN THE DEGREE OF COMPETITION BETWEEN EXISTING AND POTENTLAL TELEVISION BROADCASTING FRANCHISEES, HE ADDED.

"THIS POLICY FRAMEWORK WAS ANNOUNCED ON OCTOBER 31. 1990 AND

REMAINS UNCHANGED.

H

TELEVISION SIGNALS, MR

AS REGARDS THE RECEPTION OF SATELLITE TSAO NOTED THAT THE GENERAL RULES WERE THAT INDIVIDUAL TELEVISION RECEIVE ONLY (TVRO) DISHES, CONNECTED TO A SINGLE TELEVISION SET, WERE EXEMPT FROM LICENSING.

/"THAT IS