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(viii) To promote an appreciation of arts and sciences by organizing and presenting exhibitions of general interest;
(ix) To improve educational services by:
(1) collecting information, data and records in connection with the performing arts in Hong Kong with a view to setting up an archives;
(2) setting up a book stall in the City Hall for the dissemination of publications on the arts;
(3) publishing or assisting in the publication of books, music scores, scripts, journals etc. relating to the performing arts.
(x) To support the Hong Kong Arts Festival by way of subsidy, professional assistance and participation.
(c) Entertainments
(i) To pursue and sustain an imaginative and varied programme of public entertainment, taking into account special requirements of the elderly and the handicapped when drawing up the entertainment programme.
(ii) To promote co-operation between public and private organizations in pursuance of a fuller entertainment programme, and to co-ordinate all such efforts to achieve this aim.
Environmental Hygiene
(a) To maintain and, where possible, improve those services designed to provide satisfactory standards of environmental hygiene and to abate sanitary nuisances by providing the urban areas of Hong Kong with effective street cleansing, refuse collection, public convenience and conservancy services; and to continue the Keep Hong Kong Clean Campaign.
(b) To press for the allocation of land and the construction of adequate off-street refuse collection points in the urban areas.
(c) To press on public health grounds for improvements in the system of sewage disposal.
(d) To raise the standard of environmental hygiene, abate sanitary nuisances and prevent vermin infestation in and around buildings (including building sites) by providing regular inspection and pest control services.
(e) To prevent the breeding of malarial vectors by providing anti-malarial services for appropriate places.
(f) To raise the standard of hygiene in commercial buildings, laundries, places of public entertainment, places of amusement and offensive trades by:
(i) enforcing compliance with the relevant legislation in so far as it relates to the above businesses;
(ii) processing all applications for licences by a Central Licensing Unit to ensure that licences are granted as expeditiously as possible, and to further improve licensing procedures whenever appropriate; and
(iii) taking such action as may be practicable to prevent the operation of illegal or unhygienic businesses.
(g) To press on public health grounds for the provision of mains water supplies to all parts of the urban areas.
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(h) To press for the elimination of pig-breeding and pig-keeping in the urban areas in the interests of public health and for the abatement of nuisance.
(i) To further the knowledge and understanding of the Council's health education policies in all sections of the community and, particularly among school children.
Food Hygiene
(a) To improve the methods of enforcement of the bylaws and regulations relating to food maintaining close liaison with other departments.
(b) To keep under review the legislation relating to food in the light of developing food technology and of research in food science with reference to the recommendations of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, Food Standards Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization of the World Health Organization.
(c) To keep abreast of developments in the field of additives and contaminants in food in conjunction with the Government Laboratory.
(d) To work closely with the Institute of Pathology to study the microbiological content of various kinds of food for the prevention of microbial food-borne infections or intoxication.
(e) To co-operate with other Government departments concerned with food imports and exports to ensure departmental procedures do not conflict and that efficiency is maintained. In addition, to place particular emphasis on the need to maintain proper health standards of foodstuff destined for export.
(f) To plan the expansion of food inspection and sampling in line with advances in other countries.
Food Premises
(a) To raise the standard of hygiene in all food premises by:
(i) enforcing compliance with the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, Cap. 132, and subsidiary legislation in so far as it relates to food premises;
(ii) processing all applications for licences by a Central Licensing Unit to ensure that licences are granted as expeditiously as possible, and to further improve the licensing procedure whenever appropriate;
(iii) working closely with the Housing Department and the Public Works Department, in improving the design of food premises in new estates and housing projects; and
(iv) taking such action as may be practicable to prevent the operation of illegal or unhygienic food premises and business.
Liquor Licensing
(a) To review the legislation relating to liquor licensing and the control of licensed premises, and to recommend appropriate amendments.
(b) To streamline the licensing procedure.
(c) To enforce the Dutiable Commodities (Liquor) Regulations.
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