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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1994

UNDER

14

TELA

OFFICERS DO THE CUSTOMS

NOT

AND

ENJOY EXCISE

THE EXISTING COIAO, ENFORCEMENT POWERS AND THE POLICE AND DEPARTMENT ARE THE PRINCIPAL ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.

WITH

NOT MORE,

MR NG SAID WHILE THE DEPARTMENTS CONCERNED WOULD CONTINUE

ACTIONS, HE ENFORCEMENT

BELIEVED IT WAS

IF EQUALLY, IMPORTANT TO DO PUBLICITY AND PUBLLC EDUCATION.

TO LETTERS ABOUT ONCE EVERY SIX MONTHS, TELA SENDS CIRCULAR

COTAO AND NEWSPAPER

TO REMIND THEM OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE STALLS

BY THE OBSCENE PROVIDE THEM WITH LISTS OF PUBLICATIONS CLASSIFIED ARTICLES TRIBUNAL AS OBSCENE OR INDECENT.

THE PUBLIC

**WE HAVE ALSO ARRANGED FOR APIS (ANNOUNCEMENTS IN INTEREST) TO BE BROADCAST ON TELEVISION AND RADIO TO INVITE THE PUBLIC TO USE OUR 24-HOUR COMPLAINT HOTLINE 594 5836.

"WE

AND

HAVE ALSO DISTRIBUTED LEAFLETS AND POSTERS TO SCHOOLS YOUTH CENTRES AND INVITED STUDENT GROUPS FOR BRIEFING ON THE ORDINANCE AND OUR WORK," MR NG SAID.

י

HE APPEALED TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS TO MONITOR MORE CLOSELY THE

ESPECIALLY COMIC PUBLICATIONS,

BOOKS, READ BY THEIR CHILDREN AND

STUDENTS.

THERE

ONLY

BOOKS

AND

WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING, HE SAID, THAT MAGAZINES WRAPPED UP IN PLASTIC BAGS WERE UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN.

WRAPPED JUVENILES.

"IN FACT, A LOT OF PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING COMIC BOOKS, NOT BE READ UP ARE ALSO INDECENT AND THEREFORE SHOULD NOT

SO

BY

"UNDER THE LAW, THERE MUST BE CLEARLY AND CONSPICUOUSLY

MATERIAL

DISPLAYED ON AN INDECENT ARTICLE A WARNING NOTICE THAT CONTAINS

AND MUST NOT BE SOLD OR OFFENSIVE PERSON BELOW THE AGE OF 18.

THE HIRED ΤΟ

ARTICLE

ANY

IT IS

"THEREFORE, BEFORE A NEWSVENDOR SELLS A BOOK TO A JUVENILE OR A PARENT BUYS A BOOK FOR HIS CHILDREN, THEY MUST MAKE SURE THAT NOT ONE WITH SUCH A WARNING NOTICE.

BOOKS

WITHOUT

SUCH

A

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"OR, IN CASE THEY FIND ANY INDECENT WARNING NOTICE, THEY SHOULD TELL US BY CALLING OUR COMPLAINT HOTLINE, MR NG CONTINUED.

AGAINST

OBSCENE AND CULTURE

то FACILITATE MORE EFFECTIVE ACTIONS

ARTICLES, INDECENT

AND TELA HAS PROPOSED TO THE RECREATION BRANCH THAT THE COIAO BE AMENDED.

STAFF THE

THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS INCLUDE GIVING ENFORCEMENT POWER TO SEIZE INDECENT ARTICLES REQUIRED AS EVIDENCE FOR PROSECUTION, MAKING IT MANDATORY FOR INDECENT ARTICLES TO BE ENCLOSED WRAPPERS AND STIPULATING AN OBJECTIVE, MINIMUM SIZE FOR NOTICE TO BE DISPLAYED ON AN INDECENT ARTICLE.

A TIME SLOT FOR INTRODUCING LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IS BEING AWAITED.

IN PLASTIC THE WARNING

THESE

INTO AMENDMENTS

THE

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