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1987, and one of the reasons I advanced was this "negative" approach (now please don't take it negatively).

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fan Section 5

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of the 1972 Film Censorship Standards A Note of Guidance

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I will read certain parts and then come to the more 5 important parts)

"a film or any particular part of a film, trailer

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or advertisement/ will not be banned by the censor, unless in

his considered opinion there is a likelihood that its showing

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in a public place would (and there are some eight such criteria, but I will read out the three most important ones):

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(ii)

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(iii)

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corrupt morals or encourage crime, particularly crimes of violence, or encourage the unlawful

taking of drugs;

provoke hatred between persons in Hong Kong of differing race, colour, class, nationality, creed

or sectional interest;

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damage good relations with other territories

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The negative formulation was followed and the criteria were

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Regulation 3A of adopted the same eight criteria were adopted the Film Censorship Regulations 1987, I skipped the details but wil

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The censor shall not (and I will skip (a), and

unless, in the

in the considered opinion of the censor

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and then the same eight

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epeated in Ragul.

However, Sir, the present Bill, changes this negative

I refer members

formulation into a positive one, a newer to sed clame 10 (2) and 10(3)

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the proposed

(2) The censor shall as

soon as practicable view

the film and consider the following matters for the purpose of

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(a) whether the film portrays, depicts or treats

cruelty, torture, violence, crime, horror,

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