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Supplementary to Question No. 4

in LegCo Meeting on 25.3.87

Mrs. CHOW : Sir, did the Government in fact take a decision as

to how the classification system was to be implemented before

the LegCo in-house meeting last Friday?

Chief Secretary

Sir, the Executive

Council made a

the administrative

recommendation at its last meeting that

method of introducing a system of

of film censorship was to be

discussed with the Legislative Council. It is fair to say,

Sir, I believe, that the members of the ad hoc group in

Legislative Council were aware of the background to the problem

of the political sensitivity and

sensitivity and the legality of the present

laws dating from a meeting last August and it was certainly the

intention of the Administration that this subject would again

have been raised in the discussion between the Secretary for

Administrative Services and Information and the ad hoc group.

Mr. LEE Yu-tai : Sir, has Government considered how members of

the public should be consulted on this issue between the

publication of the draft Bill and its enactment in this Council?

Chief Secretary : Sir, there will be wide-ranging consultation

with members of the public and indeed with cinema operators.

We will obviously be content and happy to take the advice of

Members of this Council as to how that consultation should best

take place.