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TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1989
ILLEGAL STRUCTURES IN KOWLOON TO BE CLOSED
THE BUILDING AUTHORITY WILL SEEK COURT ORDERS TO CLOSE THREE ILLEGAL STRUCTURES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF KOWLOON 30 THAT THEY CAN BR DEMOLISHED WITHOUT DANGER TO THE OCCUPIERS AND TO THE PUBLIC.
NOTICES OF INTENTION TO APPLY FOR CLOSURE ORDERS WERE POSTED ON CONSPICIOUS PARTS OF THE STRUCTURES TODAY (TUESDAY).
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ONE OF THE ILLEGAL STRUCTURES IS ON THE MAIN ROOF OF YU CHAU STREET. THE CLOSURE IS PART OF AN EXERCISE TO ENFORCE THE ORDERS ISSUED UNDER THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE IN APRIL 1988 AND DECEMBER 1988 REQUIRING ITS DEMOLITION.
IT IS INTENDED THAT A CLOSURE ORDER BE SOUGHT FROM THE TSUEN WAN DISTRICT COURT ON JULY 4, 1989.
THE OTHER TWO ILLEGAL STRUCTURES ARE ON THE FLAT ROOF TO FALT A, 1/F., MAY COURT, 38-44 PAU CHUNG STREET; AND AT 1/F., ON CHEONG BUILDING, 40 MEI KWONG STREET.
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THE CLOSURE OF THE TWO ILLEGAL STRUCTURES IS TO ENFORCE ISSUED ON SEPARATE OCCASIONS UNDER THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE REQUIRING THEIR DEMOLITION WITH WHICH THE OWNERS HAD FAILED TO COMPLY.
THE ORDER WAS ISSUED ON JANUARY 7, 1985 IN RESPECT OF THE ILLEGAL STRUCTURE AT MAY COURT AND ON JUNE 16. 1987 IN RESPECT OF THAT AT ON CHEONG BUILDING,
THE CLOSURE ORDERS FOR THE TWO ILLEGAL STRUCTURES WILL BR SOUGHT FROM THE HONG KONG DISTRICT COURT ON MAY 2, 1989 AND ON JULY 5, 1989 RESPECTIVELY.
DEMOLITION WORK ON THE THREE ILLEGAL CARRIED OUT ONCE THE CLOSURE ORDERS ARE OBTAINED.
STRUCTURES WILL BR
COMMITTEE MEMBERS VISIT FSD
COMMITTEE ON
MEMBERS OF THE RECENTLY FORMED STANDING DISCIPLINED SERVICES SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE VISITED THE FIRE SERVICES DEPARTMENT THIS (TUESDAY) AFTERNOON.
THE FIVE-MEMBER DELEGATION WAS LED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE, MR JOHN SWAINE.
FOUR OTHER MEMBERS, MR PAUL CHENG, MR ANTHONY CHEUNG, MR CHOW CHUN-FAI AND MRS MIRIAM LAU, ALSO TOOK PART IN THE VISIT. MR CHENG IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE GENERAL DISCIPLINED SERVICES SUB-COMMITTEE.
/THEY WERE