Hong Kong Ordinances

BROADCASTING ORDINANCE - SECT 41

Power of Broadcasting Authority to specify forms

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Broadcasting Authority may specify the form
of any document (howsoever described) required under this Ordinance to be in
the specified form and the form of such other documents

(howsoever described) required for the purposes of this Ordinance as it thinks
fit.

(2) The Broadcasting Authority's power under subsection (1) shall be subject
to any express requirement under this Ordinance for a form, whether specified
or otherwise, to comply with that requirement, but that requirement shall not
restrict the exercise of that power in respect of that form to the extent
that, in the opinion of the Broadcasting  Authority, its exercise of that
power in respect of that form does not contravene that requirement.

(3) The Broadcasting Authority's power under subsection (1) may be exercised
in such a way as to-

   (a)  include in the specified form of any document referred to in that
        subsection a statutory declaration-

        (i)    to be made by the person completing the form; and

        (ii)   as to whether the particulars contained in the form are true
               and correct to the best of that person's knowledge and belief;

   (b)  specify 2 or more forms of any document referred to in that
        subsection, whether as alternatives, or to provide for particular
        circumstances or particular cases, as the Broadcasting Authority
        thinks fit.

(4) A form specified under this section shall be-

   (a)  completed in accordance with such directions and instructions as are
        specified in the form;

   (b)  accompanied by such documents as are specified in the form; and

   (c)  if the completed form is required to be provided to-

        (i)    the Broadcasting Authority;

        (ii)   another person on behalf of the Broadcasting Authority; or

        (iii)  any other person, so provided in the manner, if any, specified
               in the form.