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Supplementary to Question No. 5
in Legco Meeting on 27.4.88
MR.
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EDWARD HO : Sir, in the Secretary's reply, he stated
that it is intended to strengthen the establishment of the
Buildings and Lands Department So that buildings can be
surveyed systematically. Will he inform this Council
whether this huge task of surveying some 60,000 buildings
can be done by an enlarged establishment? And if so, what
would be the time span required to complete the survey,
and whether, in the meantime,
in the meantime, some people might be living
in buildings that may cause danger to life and limb?
SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS : In my reply, Sir, I said a
systematic survey, by which I mean a survey of buildings
which will be taken in priority of their likelihood of
deterioration. I believe that by the strengthening of the
Buildings Ordinance, we should in two or three years' time
get to a position, in which we will be up to date with the
buildings which require survey most urgently, and
and we
also have a good knowledge of later buildings.
we will