Speech by Hon. CHAN Nai-keong, CBE, JP Secretary for Lands and Works, at Legislative Council on 20 November 1985
Buildings (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 1985
Sir,
Whilst one might consider it inconceivable that
the Director of Building Development would delegate his statutory powers and responsibilities to a public officer who is not competent nor qualified for that purpose, one would readily agree that since the current practice is that
only certain officers in the Engineering Development
Department, Lands Department and New Territories Development
Department other than those in the Building Development Department require delegated powers, such delegation should be written in the law by way of a schedule, listing the specific Departments to which powers might be delegated.
I agree, therefore, that the delegation should be so specified.