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Supplementary to Question No. 2
Kegco meeting on 15 June 1988. an 15 June 1988.
DR. CHIU: Sir, is .the Government aware that it appears to
be very odd that road accident victims are covered by a
special scheme, whereas no similar coverage is provided
for train accident victims, bearing in mind that something
like over 1 million passengers use the MTR and KCR daily?
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SE CRE TARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE: Sir, I agree that there
is some apparent contradictory nature about this problem
but I think the difficulty is that if we extended the
TAVAS scheme or something like it to the railway system,
which is basically on private property, there would really
be no logical reason why we should not also have similar
schemes for people compensated on other private property,
such as escalators in shopping centres and many other
areas and it would be very difficult to stop, short of a
full 'no fault' compensation scheme. As far as I am aware,
the only country that has
where it is part of the
system. Also, I
such a scheme is New Zealand
contributory social security
think we should take into account the
numbers of accidents involved.
In the financial year
1987-88, the number of traffic casualties reported to
to the
police was 21,790 and of these, 6,400 applied to the TAVAS
fund for assistance. The number of reported accidents on
railway systems during the year 1987 was 661 on
the MTR and 69 on the KCR, so the
scope of the problem
the
therefore is very different.
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