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CAP. 52]

Television.

【1964 Ed.

Broadcasting requirements.

Technical requirements.

may order, not being a date earlier than that which had been specified by the licensee when submitting his application.

(2) In addition to the areas to which a licensee begins broad- casting under subsection (1) he shall thereafter commence broad- casting to such other areas by such dates as the Governor in Council may order, and shall be broadcasting to the whole of the Colony, other than to such parts as the Governor in Council may specify, not later than three years from the commencement of the licence.

(3) A licensee shall publish, in such manner as the Tele- vision Authority may direct, a notification of the commencement dates for broadcasting and the areas in which such broadcasts may be received.

(4) For the purposes of this section-

"the urban area” means the Island of Hong Kong, Kowloon and

New Kowloon.

19. Broadcasting shall conform to the following specifica- tions-

(a) channels to be of eight megacycles per second band

width;

(b) frequencies to be in Band IV comprising four hundred and seventy to five hundred and eighty-two megacycles per second;

(c) the number of lines to be six hundred and twenty-five.

20. (1) The Governor in Council may by regulation provide for the technical requirements with which a licensee shall comply in broadcasting.

(2) The Television Authority may from time to time issue Codes of Practice relating to the technical standards to be main- tained with respect to-

(a) television channels;

(b) scanning specifications;

(c) pictures signal modulation;

(d) sounds signal modulation;

(e) transmitter characteristics;

(f) design of technical equipment; and

(g) maintenance of technical equipment.

Such Codes of Practice shall not be inconsistent with any regula- tions made under subsectior (1).

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