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C657

(Cap. 341)

TELEVISION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988

writing to the Director of Accounting Services, within the period of 21 days beginning on the date of the notice under subsection (7);

(b) on the expiration of the said period, if no notifica- tion under this subsection is received by the Director of Accounting Services or, if notice of appeal is so received, on determination of the difference by agreement or arbitration, the balance remaining unpaid as specified in the notification or the amend- ed balance as so determined shall become due and payable as if the amount were one which the licensee was liable to pay for the quarter during which the period of 14 days from the date of the giving of the notice under subsection (7) expired or during which the difference was determined by agreement or ar- bitration, or where those quarters are different, whichever of them is the later.

(9) (a) Where a notification under subsection (8) is given, the difference to which the notification relates shall be determined by arbitration under the Arbitration Ordinance, and for the purposes of giving effect to the foregoing, the person by whom, or on whose behalf, the notification is given and the Director of Accounting Services shall be regarded as having concluded an arbitration agreement (within the meaning of that Ordinance) whose provisions shall be deemed to include a provision that the aforesaid difference shall, in the absence of agree- ment, be determined by a single arbitrator.

(b) In the absence of agreement, the Arbitration Ordi- nance shall, with any necessary modifications, apply to the determination of a difference to which a notification under subsection (8) relates.".

21. Section 42 is amended-

(a) by repealing subsection (1) and substituting-

Powers of Financial Secretary in relation to

"(1) For the purpose of determining amounts payable on royalty account of a royalty payable under this Ordinance and ensuring its payment, any person authorized by the Financial Secretary in that behalf may at all reasonable times--

(a) enter any building or other premises in which a company to which this section applies carries on business;

(b) require any person whom he reasonably believes to be employed in connection with such business to produce for examination any book, account, voucher, record, receipt or other document which relates to such business and which is in his posses- sion or under his control;