Sir,
Motion
By the Honourable R.G.B. Bridge, OBE, JP, Secretary for Education and Manpower in the Legislative Council on 7 January 1987
Pneumoconiosis (Compensation) Ordinance (Cap 360)
I move the resolution standing in my name on
the Order Paper.
The purpose of the Pneumoconiosis Compensation
Fund is to provide compensation for workers, or their
dependants, who suffer incapacity or death as a result
of this occupational disease. The Fund is administered
by the Pneumoconiosis Compensation Fund Board and its
work is financed by a levy of 0.15 per cent on the value
of quarry products and of
works with a
value of at least $1 million.
construction
When a reduction in the rate of levy, from 0.2
per cent to 0.15 per cent, was proposed in this Council
in December 1985, my predecessor explained that
claimants were coming forward in smaller numbers and at
an earlier stage of the disease, with a consequent
decline in the amount of compensation
encouraging trend has continued and, at the end of
November last year, the accumulated surplus stood at $72
million.
paid. This