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SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1989
APPLICATIONS
RELATED
ΤΟ
CASES
OF
HOMICIDE,
MURDER MANSLAUGHTER REMAINED UNCHANGED AT 34 CASES. APPLICATIONS RELATING ARSON DROPPED FROM 25 TO FIVE CASES.
OF THE APPLICATIONS RECEIVED, 767 WERE REFERRED BY AND A TOTAL OF 428 WERE SUBMITTED BY THE VICTIMS THEMSELVES FAMILIES.
AND TO
THE POLICE OR THEIR
PAYMENT OF
DURING THE PERIOD UNDER REVIEW, THE HIGHEST SINGLE $53,370 WAS AWARDED TO FIVE DEPENDANTS OF A TAXI DRIVER WHO WAS KILLED IN A HOMICIDE CASE. THE LOWEST AWARD WAS $190.
THE ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICANT'S ENTITLEMENT TO VARIOUS TYPES OF THE SCHEME DEPENDED ON A OF GRANTS UNDER THE PAYMENT SCHEDULE
VICTIM'S THE
MEDICAL CONDITION, NUMBER
INCLUDING OF FACTORS, EMPLOYMENT RECORDS, AND DEGREE OF DISABILITY.
CONSIDERABLE TIME BEFORE THE EXPEDITE FINANCIAL USUAL PRACTICE то APPROVE
OF
FOR APPLICANTS THE
IN SOME CASES, IT WOULD TAKE A ENTITLEMENT COULD BE FULLY COMPUTED, IN ORDER TO ASSISTANCE TO THE APPLICANTS, IT WAS THE
ELIGIBILITY INTERIM AWARDS AS SOON CERTAIN TYPES OF GRANTS COULD BE ESTABLISHED,
THE AS
CLEIC SCHEME, THE PAYMENT PERIOD OF INJURY TO VICTIMS OF SERIOUS INJURIES
AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING THE WORKING OF THE BOARDS HAD PROPOSED TO EXTEND THE MAXIMUM GRANT AND INTERIM ADJUSTMENT GRANT FROM THREE MONTHS TO SIX MONTHS.
ANOTHER PROPOSAL WAS TO GIVE THE BOARDS DISCRETIONARY POWER INCREASE THE AWARDS
AND TO VICTIMS VICTIMS, то RAPE
IN EFFORTS OF
DEMONSTRATED
EXEMPLARY
IDENTIFICATION
AND
ARREST
ΤΟ
HAD
ASSISTING
THE
CRIMINALS.
IN
WHO POLICE IN SPITE OF
THE PERSONAL
EMBARRASSMENT, INCONVENIENCE OR FEAR.
THE PROPOSALS WERE ACCEPTED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT APPOINTED
THE GOVERNMENT TODAY (SATURDAY) ANNOUNCED THE APPOINTMENT OF MR PANG HAU-CHUNG AS THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT.
MR PANG JOINED GOVERNMENT SERVICE IN 1962 AS AN APPRENTICE ENGINEER. HE WAS PROMOTED TO ASSISTANT ENGINEER IN 1964, ENGINEER IN 1967, SENIOR ENGINEER IN 1973 AND CHIEF ENGINEER IN 1980.
MR PANG HAS BEEN AN ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT SINCE 1982. HIS NEW APPOINTMENT WILL TAKE EFFECT ON JUNE 12.
THE CURRENT DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT, MR RICHARD SCURFIELD. WILL BE LEAVING THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT ΤΟ JOIN AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION AFTER MORE THAN SIX YEARS OF SERVICE IN THE GOVERNMENT.
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