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+ I SEE NO REASON TO CHANGE THE BASIS FOR GOVERNMENT PLANNING, THAT IS, SERVICES RELATED TO FUNCTIONS FOR EXAMPLE, HOUSING, EDUCATION, RECREATION RATHER THAN ON THE BASIS OF SERVICES FOR AGE-GROUPS.
SPECIALLY RELATED TO ONE AGE ELDERLY AND FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
BUT GENERALLY SERVICES
+SOME SERVICES ARE, OF COURSE, GROUP, HENCE THE PROGRAMMES FOR THE OF PERSONAL SOCIAL WORK AMONG YOUTH ARE PROVIDED FOR THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.
+PARKS, HOSPITALS, ROADS, FLATS, SWIMMING POOLS, BUSES
ALL THESE SERVE THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE, THOUGH THEY ALSO OBVIOUSLY BENEFIT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AS WELL, HE SAID.
MR. LI ADDED THAT IF AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON YOUTH SERVICES WERE TO BE SET UP, AS ADVOCATED BY THE HON. HILTON CHEONG-LEEN, THERE WOULD CERTAINLY BE SOME DUPLICATION OF EFFORTS AND THIS MIGHT INDEED CREATE CONFUSION.
CROWN RIGHTS (RE-ENTRY AND VESTING
REMEDIES) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1977
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THERE HAVE BEEN OVER 5,000 DEFAULT CASES INVOLVING MORE THAN $1 MILLION SINCE THE CROWN LEASES ORDINANCE WAS ENACTED IN DECEMBER, 1973.
THIS WAS STATED IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (THURSDAY) BY THE SECRETARY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, THE HON. DEREK JONES.
MR. JONES, WHO WAS MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE CROWN RIGHTS (RE-ENTRY AND VESTING REMEDIES) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1977 SAID THE PURPOSE OF THE BILL WAS TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR CASES OF DEFAULT IN PAYMENT OF CROWN RENT IN RESPECT OF LEASES RENEWED UNDER THE CROWN LEASES ORDINANCE TO BE DEALT WITH IN THE SAME WAY AS OTHER CROWN RENT DEFAULT CASES.
MR. JONES SAID A BREACH OF LEASE CONDITIONS OCCURRED WHERE CROWN RENT WAS NOT PAID AND THE THREAT OF RE-ENTRY OR VESTING COULD BE USED TO SECURE PAYMENT. HE SAID RE-ENTRY WAS USED WHERE CROWN RENT HAD NOT BEEN PAID FOR A WHOLE LOT OR WHOLE SECTION AND VESTING APPLIED WHERE IT HAD NOT BEEN PAID FOR A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN A LOT OR SECTION.
+ALTHOUGH SECTION 8 OF THE CROWN LEASES ORDINANCE PROVIDES A REMEDY BY WAY OF RE-ENTRY FOR DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF CROWN RENT, RE-ENTRY WHOULD HAVE TO BE UPON THE WHOLE LOT OR SECTION,✦ MR. JONES SAID.
+WHERE THE
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