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TELEVISION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988

set out in this Ordinance, to such conditions as he may specify, which conditions may relate to any matter contained in the application form submitted by the licensee under section 7.

(b) Subject to paragraph (c) and without affecting the generality of paragraph (a), conditions attached to a licence may in- clude

(c)

(i) a condition requiring the licensee to broadcast such programmes, announcements and other material as the Broadcasting Authority shall require and at such time or times, or within such period or periods and on such pro- gramme service or programme services as that authority shall specify when making the requirement;

(ii) a condition prohibiting or restricting, in a manner specified in the condition, the broadcasting by the licensee of advertising material which is of a class or description so specified.

(i) In case material, pursuant to a condition attached to a licence, is required to be broadcast at any time between the hours of 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. in any period from Monday to Friday inclusive, it shall not, without the consent of the licensee concerned, on any day exceed, or exceed in the aggregate, 30 minutes in duration.

(ii) The periods during which broadcasting material, pursuant to a condition attached to a licence, is required to be broadcast shall in the aggregate not exceed any of the following-

(A) 24 hours in any period of 24 hours commencing at

6 a.m.;

(B) 24 hours in the 15 hours between the hours of 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. in any period from Monday to Friday inclusive in any week;

(C) in case the programme service is a Chinese service,

12 hours in any week; and

(D) in case the programme service is an English service,

6 hours in any week."; and

(b) in subsection (3) by adding at the end-

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"and to authorize the possession or use of any apparatus referred to in section 8(1)(b) of the Telecommunications Ordinance which is used for or in connection with the operation by the licensee of such broadcasting or other service".

Section 10 is amended-

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Competence of

licences

(a) in paragraph (b) by repealing "be Commonwealth citizens applicants for

ordinarily resident in Hong Kong" and substituting "each be a person who is for the time being ordinarily resident in Hong Kong and who also has been so resident for at least one continuous period of not less than 7 years";

(b) in paragraph (d) by repealing "who are Commonwealth citizens ordinarily resident in Hong Kong" and substituting "each of