Section 3: Appointment of Board
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3. Appointment of Board
(1) The Minister shall appoint a Board of Stage Play Censors, consisting
of such number of persons as he thinks necessary, for the purpose of censoring stage plays.
(2) (a) The censors shall hold office on such terms and conditions as the
Minister thinks fit, and the Minister shall nominate, from among the censors,
a Chairperson and one or more Deputy Chairperson(s), and notice of any
such appointment or of any revocation shall be published in the Gazette.
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(b) The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Chairperson
and by notice in the Gazette, appoint a special Deputy Chairperson from
among the censors for the specific purpose of examining a particular stage
play.
(3) (a) For the purpose of examining a stage play submitted to the Board
for approval, the Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson, as the case may be,
shall sit with no less than 2 other censors selected for the purpose by the
Chairperson, and the decision of the majority of the censors present at the
examination shall be the decision of the Board.
(b) The Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson shall have a casting vote
as well as an original vote.
(c) No censor, other than those selected under paragraph (a), shall
take part in any such examination.