Cap. 1activeordinance

Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance

釋義及通則條例

Full legislation

s.82

Meaning of journalistic material

Meaning of
journalistic
                                        material
(1)
Subject to subsection (2), in this Part
journalistic
                        material
(
新聞材料
) means any material acquired or
                    created for the purposes of journalism.
(2)
Material is only journalistic material for the purposes of this Part if it is in the possession of a person who acquired or created it for the purposes of journalism.
(3)
A person who receives material from someone who intends that the recipient shall use it for the purposes of journalism is to be taken to have acquired it for those purposes.
(Added
88 of 1995 s. 2
)