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DRAFT SPEECH BY HON MRS SELINA CHOW, JP LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 18.4.85
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Consumer Council Annual Report 1983-84
Sir,
Due to the belated tabling of the Consumer Council Annual Report for the year 1983-84, I would like to take this opportunity to bring this Council, and the public, up to date on a number of key developments within the Consumer Council.
April 1984 marked the tenth anniversary of the
Consumer Council. During these ten years the Council has firmly established itself as the champion of consumer rights as well as sound advisor to consumer queries. The number of complaint cases in '83-84 stood at 9,600, as against 4,800 in its first years, and enquiries multiplied almost ten-fold over eight years from about 6,000 in 1976-77 to a near 60,000 in '83-84. This successful link between the Council and the public will be built on and further expanded as we continue with our policy of setting up 2 district advice centres each year until each and every district will have a centre of its
We have now 12 such centres.
own.
At this point I would like to pay special tribute to my predecessor, ex-chairman of the Consumer Council, Mr Gallant HỎ Yiu-tai, whose extraordinary good sense and dedication not only steered the Council to its position of strength today during his four and a half years as chairman, (almost half the life span of the Council if I might add), but was also most generous in his advice and guidance to me immediately prior and subsequent to my taking over the chairmanship. He was the one who identified the solution to the problem which haunted the Council for many years: that the long delays experienced in the Passing of consumer protection legislation could best be resolved by the appointment of a member of this Council onto
the Consumer Council.
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