By JOE GURINA
THE Office of Censorship will revisit the censorship act which is mandatory under its 2021 Annual Operational Plan of the year, according to Chief Censor Jim Abani.
Abani said the revisiting of the Censorship Act will only become legitimate, after the office conducts awareness into the four regions of the country with actual findings before the review is tabled.Â
He said the review of the censorship act is amongst five other priority areas that the office will embark this year, aligned with its 2021 AOP of the year.
Abani said the Act needs amendment, since the office has been using colonial laws.
He said the legislation review of the Act has to be re-visited based on the Censorship Act.
Abani stressed the other areas of focus with its annual operational plan would be to survey the regulation of commercial advertisements and music industry in the country that will capture effective awareness through the length and breadth of the country by the office.
He said the office will roll out the activities of last year into this year.
Abani said the awareness that will be conducted throughout the country is specifically to get people to acknowledge and understand the new user fee charges for censorship.
He said people in the country should be made aware of this exercise that there has been a new user fee charges imposed by the government that every business houses and even individuals need to comply with when conducting business aligned with censorship.
Hotels, motels, video libraries, bookshops, television disk set ups that will be targeted will be through this exercise.
The team will be led by an executive management to do awareness on all the business houses that conduct business activities in line with censorship office.
Wewak in East Sepik will be the first to be reached this week with awareness programs.
