FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1988
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CANDIDATES MAY SPEND MORE ON UC/RC ELECTIONS
FOR
AND REGIONAL COMING URBAN THE THE EXPENDITURE CEILING
$35,000 TO MARCH 1989 WILL BE RAISED FROM COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN
URBAN COUNCIL, REGIONAL COUNCIL AND $43,000 AS PROMULGATED IN THE
ORDER 1988 GAZETTED EXPENSES (AMENDMENT) DISTRICT BOARDS ELECTION TODAY (FRIDAY).
OF "THIS ADJUSTMENT, WHICH IS THE RESULT RECENTLY, IS BASED ON INFLATION SINCE AUGUST 1985 LIMIT WAS SET," SAID A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN.
A REVIEW CONDUCTED WHEN THE PREVIOUS
HE SAID THAT THE LIMITS ON ELECTION EXPENSES
A REGULAR BASIS AND IN TWO STAGES.
WERE REVIEWED
ON
EACH ELECTION AND KEEP
"A REVIEW IS CARRIED OUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER AGAIN SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION SO THAT THE LIMITS MAY UP WITH CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES AND INFLATION,
HE SAID.
"THE LIMITS MUST BE NEITHER SO HIGH AS TO GIVE A CANDIDATE WITH LESS WELL-OFF AMPLE FINANCIAL RESOURCES AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OVER HIS
CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES RESTRICT ΤΟ LOW AS
COMPETITORS, UNREASONABLY.”
NOR
SO LOW
FINAL DATE FOR APPLICATIONS FOR EX-GRATIA PAYMENT
* * * * *
DATE
UNDER SECTION 18(2) OF THE TRAVEL AGENTS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, BY WHICH THE FINAL AS APPOINTED JANUARY 23, 1989 HAS BEEN
RESERVE FUND AGENTS' APPLICATIONS FOR EX-GRATIA PAYMENT FROM TRAVEL SHOULD BE MADE BY FORMER CLIENTS OF DEFAULTING TRAVEL AGENTS.
ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (FRIDAY), THE REGISTRAR OF TRAVEL AGENTS, MR JOSEPH WONG SAID THAT THE CLIENTS AFFECTED BY THE AUSTRAVEL AND P.C. TRAVEL SERVICE CASES WERE INVITED TO APPLY FOR EX-GRATIA
AFTER THE COMPLETION IN
PAYMENT
OF
AND JULY APRIL WINDING-UP PROCEEDINGS.
RESPECTIVELY, 1988
"A MAJORITY OF THE
CLIENTS AFFECTED
APPLIED HAVE
AND OVER
3,000 APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.
"THOSE WHO HAVE NOT YET APPLIED MAY DO SO
AGENTS 1989 BY CONTACTING THE TRAVEL EAST WING, 6TH FLOOR, 500 HENNESSY TELEPHONE NUMBER 5-761921," HE SAID.
REGISTRY
ROAD,
BEFORE JANUARY 23, AT HENNESSY CENTRE,
BAY, CAUSEWAY
HONG KONG.
THE TRAVEL AGENTS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE 1988 NOTICE 1988 WHICH SPECIFIED THAT JANUARY 23, 1989 AS FOR SUCH APPLICATIONS WAS GAZETTED TODAY.
(SPECIFIED DATE)
THE FINAL
DATE
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