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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL — 14 March 1984
A Vote on Account Warrant will be issued to the Director of Accounting Services authorizing him to make payments up to the amount specified in motion and in accordance with its conditions. The Vote on Account will be subsumed upon the enactment of the Appropriation Bill, and the General Warrant issued after the enactment of the Appropriation Bill will replace the Vote on Account Warrant and will be effective from 1 April this year.
Sir, I beg to move.
Question put and agreed to.
ROAD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE
THE SECRETARY FOR Transport moved the following motion:-That the period for which there remains in force the limit on the number of vehicles which may be registered as public light buses, specified in the Public Light Buses (Limitation on Number) Notice 1980 published as Legal Notice No. 283 of 1980, be extended to 10 April 1986.
He said:-Sir, I rise to move the motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. Under section 7E(3) of the Road Traffic Ordinance (Chapter 220), a period is specified during which the number of vehicles which may be licensed as public light buses, is limited. This motion proposes that the period be extended for a further two years, up to the 10 April 1986.
The effect of this extension is that the total number of vehicles which may be registered and licensed as public light buses will remain at 4 350 as ordered by the Governor in Council on 8 October 1980.
Sir, I beg to move.
Question put and agreed to.
First reading of bills
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EXCHANGE FUND (AMENDMENT) BILL 1984
ARBITRATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1984
ROAD TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) BILL 1984
EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT) BILL 1984
Bills read the first time and ordered to be set down for second reading pursuant to Standing Order 41(3).
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