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

16. Board of Review
(1) For the purposes of this Ordinance, there is hereby established a Board of Review.
(2) The Board shall consist of the following members—
(a) the Secretary ex officio; and
(b) (Repealed 74 of 1995 s. 18)(c) not less than 5 other persons not being public officers appointed by the Chief Executive. (Amended 74 of 1995 s. 18; 55 of 1999 s. 3; 42 of 2021 s. 16)
(3) Subject to sections 17(6), 18(7) and 19(8), at a meeting 6 members shall form a quorum.
(4) The procedure of the Board at a meeting shall be determined by the Board.
(5) The Chief Executive shall appoint a member referred to in subsection (2)(c) to be the chairman of the Board, but in the event of the chairman’s absence from a meeting, the members present shall appoint one of their number to preside as chairman; and the chairman or person presiding shall have a deliberative and a casting vote. (Amended 55 of 1999 s. 3)
(5A) The chairman may arrange for the attendance at a meeting of the Board of a legal adviser, for the purpose of advising the Board on any legal matter. (Added 74 of 1995 s. 18)
(5B) The Secretary may appoint a public officer (representative

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

25. Authority may issue replacement certificates
(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 such form as the Authority may determine 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— (Amended 9 of 1999 s. 11)
(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.

26. Proof of certain matters
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, packaging or advertising material 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— (Amended 74 of 1995 s. 25)
(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, packaging or advertising material, as the case may be, described in that document; and (Amended 74 of 1995 s. 25)
(c) the matters contained in the certificate attached to that document are true.

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

27. Risk and expense relating to submission of film
(1) The submission or production of a film under section 8(1), 15AA(1), 17(2)(c)(i), 18(3)(c)(i) or 19(4)(c)(i) or the submission of packaging under section 15B(1) or advertising material under section 15K and the possession by the Authority of a film, packaging or advertising material, as the case may be, resulting from such submission or production, shall be at the risk and expense of the person so submitting or producing any such film, packaging or advertising material, as the case may be. (Amended 63 of 1993 s. 16; 74 of 1995 s. 26)
(2) The—
(a) modification of film by the Authority under section 13(4)(a); (Amended 42 of 2021 s. 22)
(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.

28. Delegation of powers
(1) Any public officer appointed by the Authority for the purposes of this section may exercise any of the functions which the Authority may exercise under this Ordinance except the function under section 6(2). (Amended 63 of 1993 s. 17)
(2) (Repealed 63 of 1993 s. 17)

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

29A. Authority to maintain repository
(1) The Authority shall maintain a repository of—
(a) physical storage medium for films deposited under section 9(3A) or 13(4C); (Amended 9 of 1999 s. 13)
(b) packaging submitted under section 15B(1);
(c) physical storage medium for films deposited under section 15G; and
(d) advertising material submitted under section 15K.
(2) A person may, subject to regulations made under section 29(1)(ha), on the payment of the appropriate prescribed fee, view or inspect—
(a) a physical storage medium for films in a repository referred to in subsection (1), which is or purports to be a copy of a published physical storage medium for films or a film which has been exhibited, for the purpose of comparing the copy or purported copy with the published or exhibited version;
(b) a physical storage medium for films in such a repository to ascertain the conditions, if any, relating to publication; and
(c) packaging or advertising material in such a repository.
(Added 74 of 1995 s. 28. Amended 42 of 2021 s. 2)

29B. Power of Authority to set forms
(1) The Authority may set the forms to be determined by him or that are required for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) The Authority’s power under subsection (1) is subject to any express requirement under this Ordinance for a form to comply with the requirement.
(3) The Authority may include in a form a statutory declaration to be made by the person completing the form confirming that the particulars contained in the form are correct to the best of the person’s knowledge.
(Added 9 of 1999 s. 14)

30. Guidelines for censors
The Secretary may, for information, from time to time cause to be prepared and published in the Gazette, for the guidance of censors, guidelines not inconsistent with this Ordinance, indicating the manner in which it is proposed that censors exercise their functions under this Ordinance.

31. No liability in the case of the bona fide exercise of functions under this Ordinance
No liability shall be incurred by any public officer in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by him bona fide in the exercise or purported exercise of any of his functions under this Ordinance.