TNAG-1689-FCO40-2339-Hong-Kong-legislation-regarding-the-control-of-publications--1987 — Page 51

CONTROL OF PUBLICATIONS CONSOLIDATION (AMENDMENT)

HONG KONG

No. 15 OF 1987

I assent.

Ord. No. 15/87

A77

L.S.

David AKERS-JONES,

Acting Governor.

12 March 1987

An Ordinance to amend the Control of Publications Consolidation

Ordinance.

[13 March 1987]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Control of Publications Short title. Consolidation (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.

2. The long title to the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced Repeal and by the following--

"To provide for the registration of local newspapers and news agencies and the licensing of newspaper distributors and for matters connected therewith.".

3.

replacement of long title. (Cap. 268.)

Section 1 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of "Control of Publications Consolidation" and substituting the following—

4.

"Registration of Local Newspapers".

Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended...

(a) in the definition of "address" by deleting "the Colony" and

substituting the following-

“Hong Kong”;

(b) by deleting the definition of "import";

(c) by deleting the definition of "local newspaper" and substituting

the following-

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"local newspaper" means a newspaper printed or produced

in Hong Kong;";

section 1.

Amendment of section 2.