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COMPENSATION WOULD BE PAID PROVIDED THAT SUFFICIENT MEDICAL EVIDENCE WAS AVAILABLE BEFORE DEATH TO ENABLE THE BOARD TO DETERMINE THAT HE WAS SUFFERING FROM PNEUMOCONIOSIS AND TO ASSESS THE DEGREE OF PERMANENT INCAPACITY THAT HAD RESULTED FROM THE DISEASE.
+FORTUNATELY, THERE HAD BEEN NO CASES SO FAR WHERE THE DEPENDANTS HAD FAILED TO RECEIVE COMPENSATION AS A RESULT OF THE RIGIDITY OF THE PRESENT REQUIREMENTS, MR HENDERSON SAID.
+NEVERTHELESS, THE BILL HAS BEEN DRAFTED SO AS TO PERMIT CLAIMS WHERE THE DEATH OF THE PNEUMOCONIOSIS VICTIM OCCURRED BEFORE ITS ENACTMENT, PROVIDED THAT THE DEATH OCCURRED AFTER JANUARY 1, 1981
1981, THE COMMENCEMENT DATE OF THE PNEUMOCON IOSIS (COMPENSATION) ORDINANCE,+
MR HENDERSON SAID THAT THE PROPOSALS IN THE BILL HAD THE SUPPORT OF THE LABOUR ADVISORY BOARD AND THE PNEUMOCONIOSIS COMPENSATION FUND BOARD.
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.
SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISION OF $750.6 MILLION *****
A SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISION OF $750.6 MILLION WAS APPROVED FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF THE 1985-86 FINANCIAL YEAR, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON SIR JOHN BREMRIDGE, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
OF THIS SUM, $518.8 MILLION WAS INCLUDED IN SUPPLEMENTARY WARRANTS, SIR JOHN SAID IN TABLING A SUMMARY OF CHANGES MADE TO THE APPROVED ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE IN THE THIRD QUARTER.
HE SAID: +NET SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISION OF $423 MILLION WAS APPROVED FOR PAYMENT TO THE MASS TRANSIT FUND TO ENABLE THE PROCEEDS OF A DEBT REPAYMENT BY THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY CORPORATION TO BE SET ASIDE TOWARDS AN EQUITY INJECTION OF $1 000 MILLION FOR THE MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY CORPORATION IN 1987-88.
+OTHER SUMS OF SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISION APPROVED HAVE BEEN OFFSET EITHER BY SAVINGS UNDER THE SAME OR OTHER HEADS OF EXPENDITURE OR BY DELETION OF FUNDS UNDER THE ADDITIONAL COMMITMENTS VOTES AND THESE INCLUDED $210 MILLION FOR PAYMENT OF OUT-OF-COURT SETTLEMENT AS ADVISED BY THE COUNSEL FOR THE CROWN AND $40.7 MILLION FOR ADJUSTMENTS OF SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES FOR JUDICIARY AND ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE+,
/SIR JOHN