Sir,
Speech by the Hon. E. P. Ho, CBE, JP, Secretary for Trade and Industry, in Legislative Council on 7 January 1987
Resumption of debate on Second Reading of The Post Office (Amendment) Bill 1986
I
analysis and to express my appreciation
would like to thank Mrs Chow for her helpful
to Members of the
Ad Hoc
Hoc Group for
their careful scrutiny of
this Bill.
I
endorse
Mrs
Chow's comments and
the support
proposed
amendments to give the courts greater discretion in respect
of inertia-selling.
Mrs Chow's remarks have largely covered the
various points raised by Mr Cheong-leen.
I would only like.
to add two observations.
First,
although
meaningful
statistics
on
the number of
complaints
received
are not
available, I
can assure
Mr Cheong-leen
that the scale of
the problem is sufficient to justify the measures proposed
in this Bill. The Chambers of Commerce and major industry
organisations
have been
support of these measures.
Secondly, our
consulted
and
they are also
in
experience with inertia-selling
activities is that they
tend to involve
international
operations and
it may
not
therefore be fruitful
to draw
/too fine
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