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SECRETARY FOR SECURITY: Sir, the queues are patrolled by
police on a regular basis. I have not had any particular
complaints about queue-jumping brought to my attention.
shall, however, mention this to the police and ask that
they keep an eye on that sort of thing.
I am not quite sure what my hon. Friend meant by limiting
the licences of cars but if he means the number of cars
crossing the border, this is not a practice, Sir, which is
followed at border crossing points and I see no reason why
it should be introduced at Man Kam To.
MR. LAI (in Cantonese) : The congestion at Man Kam To is
very often caused by the duplication of procedures on both
the Chinese side and Hong Kong side. On Hong Kong side
we look for contraband goods, whereas on the Chinese side,
they look at the goods from the duty collection angle.
Could the Administration inform this Council whether there
are measures in the pipeline to improve the situation?