HONG KONG
No. 25 of 1988.
L.S. |
I assent.
David WILSON,
Governor.
19 May 1988.
An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of a Film Censorship Authority, a panel of censors and a panel of advisers, and for regulating and imposing restrictions on the exhibition of films; for the approval and classification of films; for the establishment of a Board of Review; for the creation of offences; to make consequential and other amendments to other Ordinances; and for matters connected therewith.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
PART I
Preliminary
Short title and commencement. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Film Censorship Ordinance 1988 and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.
Interpretation. 2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
“advertising material” means a display, figure, film, poster, picture or text used or intended to be used for the purpose of advertising a film exhibited or intended for exhibition;
“adviser” means an adviser appointed to the panel of advisers under section 6(2);
“Authority” means the Film Censorship Authority established by section 3;
“Board” means the Board of Review established by section 16(1);
