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D. Health and Welfare

1

5

:

Mental Health Ordinance

Legitimacy Ordinance

Marriage Ordinance

Interference with correspondence of mental patients by Medical Superintendent.

Discrimination against illegitimate persons and children in their right of succession of properties and pension for widows and orphans in the civil service.

Discrimination by not giving the mother the right to give consent for the marriage of her children under the age of 21.

ICCPR article 17; BOR article 14.

ICCPR article 26; BOR article 23.

ICCPR article 26; BOR

[CCPR article 23.

E. Information,

broadcasting and public entertainment

Places of Public Entertainment 'Ordinance

:

Television Ordinance

Wide discretion of the Commissioner for Television and Entertainment Licensing over licensing conditions for public entertainment.

Wide discretion on the part of the Broadcasting Authority in relation to prohibiting broadcasting on grounds of content, coupled with specific prohibitions on political

programmes and advertisements.

ICCPR article 19; BOR article 16.

ICCPR article 19; BOR article 16.