HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL —-8 March 1989
香港立法局 ————一九八九年三月八日
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MR. DAVID CHEUNG: Sir, I have two supplementary questions if you will allow me to ask them one by one. In his answer the Secretary says it has not been possible to obtain sufficient evidence to take out a prosecution against any video rental outlet for renting indecent materials to a juvenile. Will the Administration please inform this Council whether this is a matter of inadequacy of manpower or a matter of low priority?
SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND INFORMATION: Sir, it would be unlikely that we would be able to send an 18-year-old or under to procure an item and thereby providing the evidence. It would be very difficult, and indeed would be a very strange coincidence, for an inspector to have bumped into a situation where an 18-year-old or under happens to be renting an item. I do not think it is inadequacy of manpower. I think it is just a lack of opportunity to catch an actual act of renting an obscene article to a juvenile.
譚王䓪鳴議員問:主席先生,根據現有的條例,有權向色情物品審裁處呈交傳播物品以供分類的 主要是兩類人士:一類是與傳播物品有關的人士,另一類是有關的政府人員。請政府告知本局, 自從色情物品審裁處成立以來,有多少物品由海開、警隊或影視及娛樂事務處人員提交審裁處室 裁,而其中又有多少物品由市民向有關部門投訴並提交審裁處審裁?
行政司答:根據我們的記錄,有60宗案件由政府交審裁處,而在此60宗中,有20宗是市 民投訴後提供資料呈交的;有15宗是由出版商、讀者或有關人士呈交的,其他還有900多宗 全是法庭在審案過程中呈交的。
MR. DAVID CHEUNG: Sir, since the inspection team in Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (TELA) is only a team of five, will the Secretary inform this Council whether the present level of vigilance is adequate or whether he is personally satisfied with this present level of vigilance? What are the additional measures mentioned in the answer by the Secretary?
SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND INFORMATION: Sir, the inspection team of TELA is, of course, augmented by police and by members of the Customs and Excise Service. It is, of course, not for me to say what priority the police should give to the detection and prosecution in relation to obscene material. However, I can assure Members that the police are vigilant and so are the Customs and Excise Service. What additional measures might be
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