Hong Kong Ordinances

BROADCASTING ORDINANCE - SECT 21

Restrictions on persons not regarded as fit and proper

(1) A licensee and any person exercising control of the licensee shall be and
remain a fit and proper person.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), a licensee shall, on or before the 1st of April
of each year, provide information in the specified form to the
Broadcasting Authority to enable the Broadcasting Authority to establish and
verify whether the licensee or a person exercising control of the licensee is
a fit and proper person.

(3) Subsection (2) shall not apply to a licensee which has been a licensee for
less than 4 months.

(4) In determining whether a licensee or person exercising control over the
licensee is a fit and proper person, account shall be taken of-

   (a)  the business record of the licensee or person;

   (b)  the record of the licensee or person in situations requiring trust and
        candour;

   (c)  the criminal record in Hong Kong of the licensee or person in respect
        of offences under the laws of Hong Kong involving bribery, false
        accounting, corruption or dishonesty; and

   (d)  the criminal record in places outside Hong Kong of the licensee or
        person in respect of conduct which, if done in Hong Kong, would
        constitute or form part of the criminal record in Hong Kong of the
        licensee or person as mentioned in paragraph (c).