1964_FILM_CENSORSHIP_ORDINANCE — Page 22

1988 Ed.]

Film Censorship

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Authority may issue replacement certificates

25. (1) Where the Authority is satisfied that a certificate issued under a provision of this Ordinance to a person has been destroyed, lost or stolen, he may, upon application in the prescribed form by that person, issue to that person a further certificate in like terms and, where any such further certificate is so issued, it shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed—

(a) to be issued under that provision; and

(b) to be the certificate which the Authority is satisfied has been destroyed, lost or stolen.

(2) A prescribed fee shall be payable for a certificate issued under this section, and no such certificate shall be so issued unless the fee for such certificate has been paid.

Proof of certain matters

26. A document purporting to be under the hand of the Authority stating that a certificate attached to the document is a copy of a certificate issued under this Ordinance in respect of a film described in that document shall in any proceedings be admitted in evidence on its production without further proof, and until the contrary is proved it shall be presumed that-

(a) the person who signed that document was the Authority;

(b) the certificate attached to that document is a true copy of the certificate issued under this Ordinance in respect of the film described in that document; and

(c) the matters contained in the certificate attached to that document are true.

Risk and expense relating to submission of film

27. (1) The submission or production of a film under section 8(1), 17(2)(c)(i), 18(3)(c)(i) or 19(4)(c)(i) shall be at the risk and expense of the person so submitting or producing any such film.

(2) The-

(a) excision of film by the Authority under section 13(4)(a);

(b) deposit of pieces of excised film under section 14(1);

(c) retention of pieces of excised film under section 14(2),

shall be at the risk and expense of the person who submitted the film under section 8.

Delegation of powers

28. (1) The public officers specified in the Schedule may each exercise any of the functions which the Authority may exercise under this Ordinance except the function under section 6(2).