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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1991

NEW TELA COMMISSIONER APPOINTED * * * * *

DEPUTY POSTMASTER GENERAL, MISS ELLE SHUM MUN-LING, FORMERLY HAS TAKEN UP THE POST OF COMMISSIONER FOR TELEVISION AND ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING AUTHORITY.

MISS SHUM HAS SERVED IN A NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS BRANCHES BEFORE JOINING TELA.

AND

CONTROL OF OBSCENE AND INDECENT ARTICLES (AMENDMENT)BILL EXPLAINED

THE CONTROL OF OBSCENE AND INDECENT ARTICLES

AUTOMATICALLY

(AMENDMENT) BILL FILMS III

DISCS, A

ALL CATEGORY 1991 IS NOT INTENDED TO BAN FROM BEING SOLD OR HIRED IN THE FORM OF VIDEOTAPES OR LASER SPOKESMAN FOR THE RECREATION AND CULTURE BRANCH SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL NEXT THE BILL WILL BE INTRODUCED TO WEDNESDAY (DECEMBER 4) FOR FIRST AND SECOND READINGS.

EXPLAINED

PRINCIPAL

THE THAT

TARGET OF THE THE SPOKESMAN

PRESENT PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE AMENDMENT IS PORNOGRAPHIC FILMS WHICH AT MAY BE SOLD OR HIRED FREELY TO YOUNG PEOPLE.

IT IS

BUT A OR

SOLD TO A

BE SOLD OR HIRED IF "A CATEGORY III FILM MAY STILL CLASSIFIED AS INDECENT BY THE OBSCENE ARTICLES TRIBUNAL (OAT),

OR LASER DISC WARNING NOTICE MUST BE DISPLAYED ON THE VIDEOTAPE THE WRAPPER ENCLOSING IT TO THE EFFECT THAT IT MAY NOT BE

THE SPOKESMAN SAID. PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS,

OBSSCENE

'OBSCENITY' REPULSIVENESS.

AND 'INDECENCY'

IS HE SAID ONLY WHEN A VIDEOTAPE OR LASER DISC

WILL IT BE BANNED FROM BY THE TRIBUNAL

MAY INCLUDE VIOLENCE,

SALE

CLASSIFIED AS HIRE, OR DEPRAVITY AND

HE ADDED THAT THE OAT,

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A VIDEOFILM IN DETERMINING WHETHER

LAW ΤΟ BY REQUIRED

то HAVE REGARD

AND DECENCY

PROPRIETY THAT ARE GENERALLY THE DOMINANT EFFECT AND WHETHER

IS

THE

OBSCENE OR INDECENT, STANDARDS OF MORALITY, ACCEPTED BY REASONABLE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, OF THE FILM, THE PEOPLE TO WHOM THE FILM IS TO BE SHOWN, THE FILM HAS AN HONEST PURPOSE.

BESIDES, HE SAID, IT IS ALSO REQUIRED TO DECISION OF THE CENSOR IF THE FILM HAS BEEN DEALT CENSORSHIP AUTHORITY.

HAVE REGARD TO THE WITH BY THE FILM

OR

MERIT SOCIAL

THEREFORE, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE ARTISTIC AND LITERARY

OR VALUE ITS IMPORTANCE

FOR CULTURAL OF THE FILM AND REASONS ARE ALSO FACTORS THAT MUST BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.

/"THE AIM

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