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(a)

428

that Regulation 3 should be

amended to require the

Registrar to record on the

relevant

document

his

reasons for waiving fees;

(b) that, subject to (a) above,

under Section 46 of the

Control of Obscene and

Indecent Articles Ordinance

(Ordinance

9/87),

the

Control of Obscene

and

Indecent

Articles

Regulations 1987

at Annex

B

to the memorandum should be

made; and

(c) that

the

administration

should

consider

whether

statutory notices

could be

published in the Government

Gazette

rather

than

in

newspapers,

and seek

the

Council's advice on this.

(The

Principal Assistant

Secretary

Administrative Services and Information, Mr J.T. MICHIE,

for

the

Senior Assistant

Mr Law Draftsman,

G. FOX and

the Chief

Magistrate, Mr R.N. HAWKES, attended before the Council for

the discussion of this item.)