Sir, may I take another point. If legislators of
this Council have found this Bill to be difficult and no
doubt as the hon.
A
Hilton CHEONG-LEEN said, policemen on
ferd
the beat will also found it very difficult to understand,
then surely the same applies for the unfortunate parents
of children who might be mentally retarded or even
suffering from a mental disorder. So may I respectfully
suggest that the Administration should give serious
consideration to compiling a little booklet for use of
these parents in case policemen were to knock on their
door and say, "Sorry, there is a complaint about your
hi child who might believed to be mentally
retarded or
suffering from some mental disorder and that I must take
the child away from you.". With the assistance of the bookc
at least a parent would know what to do in these
circumstances.
Finally, I believe that it
it is my duty to point
out to this Council and to the Administration that when
this Bill is passed into law, a police officer in Hong
Kong may still not be able to enter the private premises
enter
of a person lawfully in order to stop him from committing
suicide inside his own flat, if he happens to be alone in
the Flat and will not invite the policemen to enter. This
is so because all the powers of the police officer in Hong
Kong are statutory, and under section 71B(5) of the