HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 15 February 1989
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香港立法局
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Another amendment is also proposed. Where more than one lift or escalator is installed in a building, the owner of the lifts or escalators must send to the Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services a plan showing their position, and the identifying numbers marked on them. Although this requirement applies to service lifts, there is presently no effective sanction for failing to send a plan relating to service lifts. This would be remedied by the proposal in clause 7 of the Bill to amend section 33 of the Ordinance to enable the Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services to prohibit the use and operations of service lifts when the owner fails to send a plan of them.
Sir, I move that the debate on this motion be now adjourned.
Question on adjournment proposed, put and agreed to.
PHARMACY AND POISONS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1989
The SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE moved the Second Reading of: "A Bill to amend the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance".
He said: Sir, I move that the Pharmacy and Poisons (Amendment) Bill 1989 be read a Second time.
A Pharmacy and Poisons Appeal Tribunal is established under section 30 of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance. Its purpose is to hear and determine appeals against a decision or direction of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board or its committees. The Ordinance also requires that the chairman and not less than two other members of the tribunal should sit together throughout the hearing and determination of an appeal.
There is, however, no provision under the Ordinance to deal with a situation in which the term of office of members of the tribunal expires before the hearing of an appeal has been concluded. In such a situation, the appeal will have to be heard afresh by the incoming members. It is clearly unreasonable that an appellant be required, at his own cost, to re-present his case to a new tribunal simply because the legal capacity of the former tribunal to hear the appeal has expired.
Clause 2 of the Pharmacy and Poisons (Amendment) Bill 1989 therefore seeks to enable a member who has resigned or whose term has expired to continue to act as a member to the extent necessary for hearing an outstanding