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BROADCASTING ORDINANCE
Ord. No. 48 of 2000
A1801

“television programme” (電視節目) means moving visual representational images (that is, images comprised within sequences of visual images capable of being seen as moving images), or a combination of sounds and such images, that are intended to inform, enlighten or entertain, but does not include visual images that consist predominantly of alphanumeric text, data, graphs, charts, diagrams or video games;

“television programme service” (電視節目服務)—

(a) subject to paragraph (b)—
(i) means the provision of a service that includes television programmes for transmission by telecommunications—
(A) that are readily accessible to, or made available to, the general public in or outside Hong Kong; or
(B) to persons, in 2 or more specified premises, simultaneously or on demand, whether on a point-to-point or a point-to-multipoint basis, or any combination thereof, having equipment appropriate for receiving that service; and
(ii) includes a service, or a service belonging to a class of services, which is a television programme service in accordance with the provisions of a notice under subsection (5)(a);
(b) does not include the provision of a service that—
(i) consists only of a television programme that is made solely for performance or display in a public place;
(ii) consists only of a television programme that is intended wholly or mainly for the purposes of the trade, business, employment or profession of the recipient (but excluding a television programme delivered to hotel rooms);
(iii) consists only of a service that is specified in Schedule 3; or
(iv) is a service, or a service belonging to a class of services, which is not a television programme service in accordance with the provisions of a notice under subsection (5)(b);

“television programme service locking device” (鎖碼裝置) means a device which enables a person to whom a television programme service is or is to be provided to control access to the service;

“voting control” (表決控制權) and “voting controller” (表決控權人) mean the same as they do in the definitions of “voting control” and “voting controller” respectively in Part 1 of Schedule 1;

“voting share” (有表決權股份), in relation to a corporation, means a share which entitles the registered owner of the share to vote at meetings of the shareholders of the corporation.