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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1994

AND

ΤΟ THE LICENSING AND TODAY'S

THEY HAVE MADE REFERENCE TO SIMILAR REGULATORY FRAMEWORK EXPERIENCE IN OVERSEAS COUNTRIES AND HAD REGARD SYSTEMS FOR SOME OF LOCAL TRADES IN THEIR LAST MEETING MEETING.

INTEREST

UNDER A FORMAL MINIMUM

MEMBERS GENERALLY AGREED THAT IT WOULD BE IN THE BEST OF THE TRADE AND THE PUBLIC TO PLACE ESTATE AGENTS REGULATORY FRAMEWORK THAT WILL SERVE THE PURPOSES OF ENSURING

SANCTIONING AND COMPETENCE ACCEPTABLE INCOMPETENT AGENTS.

STANDARD

DISHONEST AND

SHOULD DETERMINING

REQUIREMENTS, LICENSING

BREACHES INQUIRING INTO ALLEGED

THE AUTHORITY THEY ALSO AGREED THAT THE PRIMARY FUNCTIONS OF

MATTERS, ON THE

REGULATORY INCLUDE

GOVERNMENT ADVISING

LICENSING ESTATE AGENTS,

AND

AND REGULATIONS

OF RULES

IMPOSING PENALTIES ON DEFAULTING AGENTS.

MORE WOMEN ADVISERS ON FILM CENSORSHIP NEEDED

*

AUTHORITY (TELA)

THE TELEVISION AND ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING WILL RECRUIT MORE WOMEN TO BE PUBLIC ADVISERS ON FILM CENSORSHIP.

TELA TODAY

THE (FRIDAY), AT A SPRING RECEPTION HOSTED BY COMMISSIONER FOR TELEVISION AND ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING, MRS RITA LAU, SAID: "WE NOW HAVE A PANEL OF ABOUT 300 PUBLIC ADVISERS BUT ONLY ABOUT 80 OF THEM ARE WOMEN.

"THE ADDITION OF WOMEN WOULD MAKE THE PANEL MORE REPRESENTATIVE OF OUR COMMUNITY," SHE SAID.

BUT MRS LAU SAID SHE WAS NOT IMPLYING THAT THE DID NOT REFLECT THE COMMUNITY'S OPINION.

PRESENT PANEL

CONDUCTED PUBLIC ADVISERS

"IN FACT, A PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY ON FILM STANDARDS AT THE END OF LAST YEAR SHOWS THAT THE VIEWS OF OUR ARE GENERALLY IN LINE WITH THOSE HELD BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

ANALYSED

CERTAIN DATA WAS STILL BEING RESEARCH FIRM CONDUCTING THE SURVEY, MRS LAU SAID.

BY THE INDEPENDENT

HAVE

"THE REPORT WILL BE READY BY THE END OF THIS MONTH BUT WE YET TO MAKE A DECISION ON THE PRECISE DATE WHEN IT WILL BE RELEASED TO THE PUBLIC," SHE SAID.

MRS LAU PRAISED THE CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY THE PUBLIC WHO SPENT HALF A DAY EVERY TWO WEEKS TO ADVISE THE FILM WHETHER A FILM SHOULD BE APPROVED FOR SHOWING AND IF SO, SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED AS CATEGORY I, II OR III.

ADVISERS, CENSORS WHETHER

"IT IS HEARTENING TO SEE SO MANY MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, COME FROM DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE, SACRIFICING THEIR TIME TO RENDER SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY.

ON

IT

WHO

A

APPEAL OF THE BALANCED

"THE

FACT THAT THERE WAS IN THE WHOLE OF 1993 ONLY ONE AGAINST THE FILM CENSORS' DECISION IS INDICATIVE

MRS LAU SAID. ADVICE PUT FORTH BY THE PUBLIC ADVISERS,

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/ON THE