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HONG KONG

LEGAL REPORT

Enclosure No. 2

THE CONTROL OF OBSCENE AND INDECENT ARTICLES BILL 1986

(No. 9 of 1987)

This Ordinance replaces the Objectionable

Publications Ordinance (Cap. 150).

2.

The Ordinance sets up a tribunal which is given exclusive jurisdiction to determine the question of whether any article or matter is obscene or indecent. The tribunal will also be able to classify articles submitted to it under section 13.

3. Before the Acting Governor assented to the Bill in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, the Attorney General advised that he could properly do so.

Ameerd amb

Law Draftsman.

March 1987.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

HONG KONG.

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