### Film Censorship Ordinance 《電影檢查條例》

14B. Authority may require information about exhibition of films
(1) If a person has been issued for a film—
(a) a certificate of exemption under section 9; or
(b) a certificate of approval under section 13,
the Authority may, by written notice given to the person, require the person to provide any information about the exhibition of the film that is specified in the notice.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), it is immaterial whether the exhibition of the film is an intended exhibition, a current exhibition or a past exhibition.
(3) A notice given to a person under subsection (1)—
(a) must specify a period within which the person must provide the information to the Authority; and
(b) may specify the form and way in which the person must provide the information to the Authority.
(Added 42 of 2021 s. 13)

### Film Censorship Ordinance 《電影檢查條例》

14C. Offences in relation to notice under section 14B
(1) A person who fails to comply with a notice given to the person under section 14B(1) commits an offence and is liable—
(a) on the first conviction—to a fine at level 3; and
(b) on a subsequent conviction—to a fine at level 5.
(2) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (1) to establish that, at the time the offence is alleged to have been committed—
(a) the person had reasonable excuse for failing to comply with the notice; or
(b) without limiting paragraph (a), the information required to be provided—
(i) was not within the knowledge, in the possession or under the control of the person; and
(ii) could not reasonably have been ascertained or obtained by the person.
(3) A person is taken to have established a matter that needs to be established for a defence under subsection (2) if—
(a) there is sufficient evidence to raise an issue with respect to that matter; and
(b) the contrary is not proved by the prosecution beyond reasonable doubt.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (2)(a), a person does not have a reasonable excuse for failing to comply with a notice given to the person under section 14B(1) only because the information required to be provided for compliance with the notice might tend to incriminate the person.
(5) A person commits an offence if—
(a) in purported compliance with a notice given to the person under section 14B(1), the person provides any information to the Authority that is false or misleading in a material particular; and
(b) the person knows that, or is reckless as to whether, the information is false or misleading in a material particular.
(6) A person who commits an offence under subsection (5) is liable—
(a) on the first conviction—to a fine at level 3; and
(b) on a subsequent conviction—to a fine at level 5.
(Added 42 of 2021 s. 13)

### Film Censorship Ordinance 《電影檢查條例》

14D. Use of incriminating evidence in proceedings
(1) Subsection (2) applies if—
(a) the Authority imposes a requirement on a person to provide information under section 14B(1);
(b) the information might tend to incriminate the person; and
(c) the person claims, before providing the information, that it might so tend.
(2) The requirement and information are not admissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings other than those in which the person is charged with any of the following offences in respect of the information—
(a) an offence under section 14C;
(b) an offence under Part V of the Crimes Ordinance (Cap. 200).
(3) On or before imposing a requirement on a person to provide information under section 14B(1), the Authority must ensure that the person is informed or reminded of the limitations imposed by subsection (2) on the admissibility in evidence of the requirement and information.
(Added 42 of 2021 s. 13)

15. Film not to be exhibited without display of certificate of exemption or approval
(1) A person shall not exhibit a film in respect of which a certificate of exemption has been issued under section 9 or a certificate of approval has been issued under section 13 unless the certificate, or a legible photocopy thereof, is displayed and kept displayed in a conspicuous position in or about the entrance to the part of the place intended to be occupied by persons viewing the exhibition of the film during the period of the exhibition of the film.
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 3. (Amended E.R. 6 of 2021)

### Film Censorship Ordinance 《電影檢查條例》

15AA. Approval for publication of physical storage media for films with additions or excisions
(Amended 42 of 2021 s. 2)(1) Where there is a certificate of exemption or a certificate of approval in force in respect of a film, a person who intends to publish a physical storage medium for films— (Amended 42 of 2021 s. 2)
(a) containing a record of the visual images (including any sound track associated with the film) comprised in the film to which the certificate relates and additions (whether or not such additions are pieces, if any, excised from that film under section 10(4));
(b) being a physical storage medium for films with excisions from the form in which the film to which the certificate relates was exempted or approved; or
(c) being a physical storage medium for films with both such additions and excisions,
he shall submit the storage medium to the Authority to be dealt with under section 9 or 10.
(2) Except where this Ordinance provides otherwise, the following applies to and in relation to a submission under subsection (1)—
(a) it shall be deemed for the purposes of this Ordinance to be a submission under section 8 of a film intended for exhibition and accordingly any reference in this Ordinance to a submission under that section shall be construed as including a reference to a submission under subsection (1);
(b) any provision in this Ordinance applicable to and in relation to the submission of a film under section 8 shall apply to and in relation to the submission of a physical storage medium for films under subsection (1); and
(c) for the avoidance of doubt it is declared that any reference in this Ordinance to a certificate of exemption or certificate of approval shall be construed as including a reference to a certificate of exemption or a certificate of approval issued under section 9 or 13 pursuant to a submission under subsection (1).
(3) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that, where—
(a) as a result of a submission under section 8 and any submission under subsection (1), there is more than one certificate of exemption or certificate of approval in force in respect of a film; and
(b) each such certificate of exemption or certificate of approval, as the case may be, relates to a different form of that film,
any reference in this Ordinance to a certificate of exemption or a certificate of approval shall be construed having regard to the form of the film concerned and as a reference to the certificate of exemption or the certificate of approval, as the case may be, issued in respect of that film, for that form.
(Added 74 of 1995 s. 9. Amended 42 of 2021 s. 2)