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SECURE SEATS FOR PASSENGERS IN A GOODS VEHICLE
PASSENGERS IN A GOODS FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1989, WOULD BE REQUIRED TO BE SEATED IN A PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED
LEUNG, MICHAEL SEAT, THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, THE THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
ALL
VEHICLE
AND
HON
SECURED INFORMED
MR VEHICLE
HON RONALD CHOW. IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE LEUNG SAID THAT DRIVERS WOULD NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE A WITH A PORTER RIDING ON THE TAILBOARD OR THE LOAD.
REQUIRE ENCLOSED PROTECTIVE
EFFECTIVE
DRAFT LEGISLATION WAS ALSO BEING PREPARED TO
ΤΟ HAVE AN VEHICLE VAN-TYPE LIGHT GOODS PARTITION BETWEEN THE PASSENGER SEATS AND THE GOODS COMPARTMENT.
THAT
PRESENT, AT
THE
ROAD
(TRAFFIC LOAD WAS THE
TRAFFIC MR LEUNG SAID CONTROL) REGULATIONS REQUIRED ALL DRIVERS TO ENSURE THAT THE
OF IT TOUCHED PROPERLY SECURED TO THE VEHICLE, THAT NO PORTION GROUND OR WAS SOLELY SUPPORTED BY THE TAILGATE.
AND PRACTICAL
GUIDANCE
ON THE SAFE
THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS CARRIAGE OF GOODS AND PASSENGERS WERE ALREADY PROVIDED IN THE CODE OF
WHICH WAS DISTRIBUTED TO PRACTICE FOR THE LOADING OF VEHICLES, GOODS VEHICLE OPERATORS IN NOVEMBER 1988.
ALL
THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT HAD ORGANISED A GOODS VEHICLE
OF METHODS CORRECT EXHIBITION TO DEMONSTRATE THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF LORRIES AND TRUCKS.
LOADING
SECURELY
LOADING
THE
SAFETY AND
LEGAL
CONTINUE WOULD REQUIREMENTS
TO BE
PUBLICISED, HE SAID.
SPENDING ON VIETNAMESE AMOUNTS TO $1,458 MILLION
EXPENDITURE ON VIETNAMESE REFUGEES AND BOAT PEOPLE INCURRED
HAS AMOUNTED ΤΟ $1.458.03 THE GOVERNMENT SINCE 1979
ACTING SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON ALISTAIR ASPREY, LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
BY
MILLION, INFORMED
THE THE
MR ASPREY GAVE THIS FIGURE IN A WRITTEN FROM THE HON RONALD CHOW.
REPLY TO A QUESTION
/HE PROVIDED
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