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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1989
REVISED FEES FOR REGISTRATION OF PATENTS
THE REGISTRATION OF PATENTS (FEES) (AMENDMENT) RULES 1989 APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
WERE
OF
APPROVAL,
THE RULES WERE MADE BY THE REGISTRAR OF PATENTS ON JANUARY 3.
UNDER THE REGISTRATION OF MOVING THE MOTION PATENTS ORDINANCE, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON PIERS JACOBS, SAID THE FEES PAYABLE TO THE REGISTRAR OF PATENTS IN CONNECTION REGISTRATION OF PATENTS WERE LAST REVISED IN 1985.
EXERCISE
RECENTLY UNDERTAKEN A COSTING "FOLLOWING TREASURY, IT IS PROPOSED THAT CERTAIN FEES BE AMENDED TO TAKE OF INFLATION AND THE COST OF PROVIDING THE SERVICES.
WITH THE
BY
THE ACCOUNT
THE WELL ESTABLISHED POLICY OF "THIS IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
MR JACOBS BAID. USERS PAYING THE FULL COST FOR THE SERVICES RENDERED,
M
REVIEWS CONDUCTED ON EQUAL PAY
REVIEWS CONDUCTED
IN
1978
THAT
THERE
AND 1986 FOUND
WAS MARKET AGAINST EITHER GENERALLY NO PAY DISCRIMINATION IN THE LABOUR
THE HON RON BRIDGE, SEX, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THE
LABOUR
LABOUR ADVISORY BOARD'S THESE REVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED BY
OF INTERNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION TRIPARTITE COMMITTEE ON THE STANDARDS, MR BRIDGE ADDED.
MR BRIDGE
WAS REPLYING
TO
A QUESTION
FROM THE
HON
TAM
YIU-CHƯNG,
MR TAM HAD ASKED WHY THE APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 7(A) (1) OF INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, PROVIDED THAT MEN AND WOMEN SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO EQUAL PAY FOR WORK, HAD BEEN POSTPONED IN RELATION TO HONG KONG SINCE 1976.
MR BRIDGE
EXPLAINED
THAT
WHEN THE
HONG
THE
WHICH
EQUAL
GOVERNMENT EQUAL
KONG CONSIDERED THIS ISSUE IN 1976, IT HAD ACCEPTED THE PRINCIPLE OF PAY FOR EQUAL WORK,
APPLY ARTICLE 7 OF THE ECONOMIC IT, HOWEVER, FELT THAT TO COVENANT WITHOUT RESERVATION WOULD CAUSE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS, HE ADDED.
THAT FELT WOMEN AND
"AT THAT TIME THE GOVERNMENT
CONDITIONS OF WORK BETWEEN MEN
ANY DIFFERENCES IN WERE MAINLY DUE TO THE DIFFERENCES IN THE POSITIONS THEY HELD, RATHER THAN TO DISCRIMINATION.
"IN ORDER