TNAG-1814-FCO40-2575-Hong-Kong-Film-Censorship-Ordinance-1988-(No.-25-of-1988)-1988 — Page 182

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A BILL

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Provide for the establishment of a Film Censorship Authority,

a panel of censors and a panel of advisers, and for

regulating and imposing restrictions on the exhibition

of films; for the approval and classification of films;

for the establishment of a Board of Review; for the

creation of offences; to make consequential and other

amendments to other Ordinances; and for matters

connected therewith.

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice

and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1.

PART I

PRELIMINARY

This Ordinance may be cited as the Film Censorship

Ordinance 1988 and shall come into operation on a day to be

appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.

2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context

otherwise requires

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"advertising material" means a display, figure, film,

poster, picture or text used or intended to be used

for the purpose of advertising a film exhibited or

intended for exhibition;