Officials denied yesterday they were trying to tighten controls on demonstrations by amending a minor law.
The Government plans to change the Pleasure Grounds (Urban Council) Bylaws to ensure approval must be obtained for the display of any sculpture in municipal council venues.
A pro-democracy politician believes the amendment is aimed at preventing the Pillar of Shame, marking the 1989 Beijing massacre, from being erected in Victoria Park each year.
A Constitutional Affairs Bureau spokesman said the change was not targeted at any particular group.
'The amendment only aims to clear some ambiguity in the existing legislation,' the spokesman said.
Democratic Party legislator Albert Ho Chun-yan, vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China, said he would propose that the clause be deleted.
