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On-line video may require licence to operate
Responding to press reports that a consortium of companies was planning to establish an "on-line video rental business", the Deputy Secretary for Broadcasting, Culture and Sport, Mrs Rita Lau, said that any service which fell within the meaning of "broadcasting" in the Television Ordinance would require an appropriate licence.
She pointed out that once the Television (Amendment) Bill was enacted and came into force, the term "broadcasting" would include the provision of television programmes, including films, made available to two or more homes or the general public by means of point-to-point terrestrial telecommunication on payment of a subscription.
As to whether this would include the service mentioned in recent press reports, Mrs Lau said: "On the basis of the reports, I believe that either a programme service licence or a subscription television licence would be required. I have sought further information to confirm whether this is so."
The Television (Amendment) Bill, which will create a new category of programme service licence for point-to-point transmissions of television programmes, is due to have its second reading in the Legislative Council on March 19.
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Demolition contractor fined over mishap
A registered contractor and a demolition work supervisor have recently been convicted and fined $27,000 and $30,000 respectively for causing death and injury while carrying out demolition at a San Po Kong work site in November 1995.
During the incident; a bus passenger was killed and another injured when a piece of brick wall fell from a demolition site at No.1 Tai Yau Street in San Po Kong, piercing the roof of a double-decker bus stopping for a red traffic light at Choi Hung Road.
A street lamp was also damaged in the incident on November 9. 1995 at
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