Supplementaples to Question No 8 in Legco Chambers
on Wednesday 18th May 1988
MR. EDWARD HO: Sir, will the Secretary inform
this Council of the capacity for the testing
centre to verify smoke problems and whether it is
working to its capacity, and if not, why not?
Street
SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE: Sir, the planned
capacity of the testing centre at Sheung Lok
is 17,000 vehicles per year. At the moment, the
centre is approximately half-staffed which is largely
caused by the problem of recruiting sufficient staff
to operate the centre but a recruitment programme is
under way.
At present, it is operating a capacity of about 600-700 vehicles per month and this, we hope, will
be up to the full capacity as soon as the additional
staff have been recruited."
CHI-FAI
MR. POON (in Cantonese) : Sir, regarding the answer
3, will the Government inform this
in paragraph
Council
why
the
Government
decides
that there is a need to review thoroughly the
emission standards?
does
Secondly, the intention to
have the review contradict with the earlier comment
that the initial results of the vehicle smoke control
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