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There are four categories of
television programme services under the Broadcasting
Ordinance (BO). Licences for domestic free television
programme service (domestic free) and domestic pay
television programme service (domestic pay) are issued
by the Chief Executive in Council (CE in C) while
licences for non-domestic television programme service
(non-domestic) and other licensable television programme
service (other licensable) are issued by the BA.
After the licences are issued, the monitoring of licensees’
performance and compliance falls on the BA established
under the Broadcasting Authority Ordinance (BAO).The
BA administers the BO, issues codes of practice, guidelines
and directions, processes complaints and imposes sanctions
where any non-compliance occurs. The sanctions range
from an advice to revocation of licence or recommendation
to the CE in C on revocation of the licence if the
licence is issued by the CE in C.
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