2
3rd Revised copy
(Issued at 10.00 a.m. on 10,8,71)
2.30 p.m. Wednesday 10th March 1971
2.
Dr S. Y. Chung to ask:
The new Workmen's Compensation Ordinance has been in force for
over a year now. Will Government inform this Council the number and percentage of cases which involved respectively delay and failure in the payment of compensation to injured workers?
STATEMENT
Mr R. M. Hetherington
GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
FIRST READING OF BILLS
Appropriation Bill 1971
: Mining (Miscellaneous Amendment)
Regulations 1971.
Law of Property Amendment (Amendment) Bill 1971
Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Bill 1971
Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Bill 1971
SECOND READING OF BILLS
Financial Secretary
Attorney General
Mr R. M. Hetherington
Mr R. M. Hetherington
Attorney General
: Appropriation Bill 1971
{Debate to be adjourned under S.0. 54(2}}|
: Law of Property Amendment (Amendment)
Bil 1971
: Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Bill 1971
: Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Bill 1971
: Deceased's Family Maintenance Bill 1971
(Resumed debate)
COMMITTEE STAGE AND THIRD READING OF BILLS
Attorney General
Attorney General
Financial Secretary
: Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill 1971
: Magistrates (Amendment) Bill 1971
O.P. No 12/30
PAPERS
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Subject
OF HONG KONG
ORDER PAPER
Subsidiary Legislation :-
L. N. No.
18
Inland Revenue Ordinance,
Specified Corporation Notice 1971.
University of Hong Kong Ordinance.
Statutes of the University of Hong Kong (Amendment) Statutes 1971.
19
Reports:-
The First Report of the Chinese Language Committee.
(Published on 28.2.71)
Report on Training in the Public Service of Hong Kong
1959-1968. (To be published)
STATEMENT
The Colonial Secretary: Report on Training in the Public Service
of Hong Kong 1959-1968.
GOVERNMENT BUSINESS
MOTION
DELEGATION OF FINANCIAL POWERS
Financial Secretary:
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED
(1)
Widows and Orphana Pension (Amendment)
Bal 1971
(2)
R. J. Frampton
Clerk to the Legislative Council
(3)
that, in accordance with the provisions of Colonial Regulation 223(2)(a), the Governor may sanction additional expenditure (on his own responsibility pending covering approval of the Finance Committee of this Council) where the total required under any individual subhead does not exceed the sum specifled in the third column of the Schedule to this Resolution,
that, in accordance with Colonial Regulation 223(2)(c), authority is conferred upon the Governor to delegate such of the powers conferred upon him by Colonial Regulation 223(2)(a) and by this Resolution as are specified in the Schedule to this Resolution, to the extent specified in the third column thereof, to the public officers specified in the fourth column thereof and subject to such conditions, exceptions and qualifications as the Governor may prescribe,
that, in accordance with Colonial Regulation 223(2)(c), authority is conferred upon the Governor to delegate any of the powers conferred on him by Colonial Regulation 223(2)(b) to the Financial Secretary and the Deputy Financial Secretary
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