1964_FILM_CENSORSHIP_ORDINANCE — Page 21

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Film Censorship

[1988 Ed.

(2) A person shall not exhibit a film in respect of which a certificate of approval issued under section 13 has been revoked or is deemed to be revoked under this Ordinance unless and until there is in force in respect of the film-

(a) a certificate of exemption issued under section 9; or

(b) a further certificate of approval issued under section 13.

(3) A person who knowingly contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for 6 months.

Inspection and enforcement

23. (1) The Authority may authorize in writing any public officer to be an inspector for the purposes of this Ordinance.

(2) An inspector may-

(a) at all reasonable times enter any place in which he has reason to believe a film is exhibited or intended to be exhibited:

(b) at any time enter any place in which he has reason to believe that an offence under this Ordinance is being or has been committed; and

(c) in any place entered under paragraph (a) or (b)—

(i) seize a film which appears to him to be evidence of an offence under this Ordinance; and

(ii) require any person found in that place to furnish to him for his inspection, his proof of identity.

(3) An inspector shall, if requested by any person in any place entered under subsection (2)(a) or (b), produce his authority as such inspector.

(4) A person who-

(a) wilfully obstructs an inspector in the exercise of a power under subsection (2); or

(b) fails without reasonable excuse to furnish his proof of identity if so required under subsection (2)(c)(ii),

commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for 6 months.

Censorship mark

24. (1) The Authority may, by notice in the Gazette, adopt, and, in his discretion, by notice in the Gazette, change or amend a censorship mark and such censorship mark shall be evidence that a film in connection with which it is displayed has been approved for exhibition under this Ordinance.

(2) A person who displays the censorship mark adopted under subsection (1), including the censorship mark as changed or amended under that subsection, or a mark calculated to be mistaken for the censorship mark, in connection with a film without the written consent of the Authority commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for 6 months.