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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1989
DRAFT LEGISLATION ON REGULATING SECURITY INDUSTRY
DRAFT LEGISLATION
IMPROVING
* * *
ON REGULATING NOW BEING
AND
THE SECURITY INDUSTRY
THE CONSIDERED,
SECRETARY FOR IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
IS STANDARDS SECURITY, THE HON GEOFFREY BARNES, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY},
MR BARNES WAS
REPLYING ΤΟ A QUESTION FROM
HON CHUNG THE MADE IN AMENDING THE THE VIEW IN
PUBLIC CONCERN ON IMPROVING WATCHMEN ORDINANCE, QUALITY OF WATCHMEN AND ENHANCING THE EFFICIENCY OF THEIR SERVICE.
PUI-LAM, WHO HAD ASKED WHAT PROGRESS HAD BEEN
OF
IN THE COUNCIL WAS CONSIDERING
THE
THE SECRETARY POINTED OUT THAT AS HE HAD SAID
THE NOVEMBER 8,
FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE POSSIBILITY OF NEW LEGISLATION TO ACHIEVE THE TWO OBJECTIVES,
ON
OF THE
REGULATION
OF
THE
SECURITY OUT
THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE INDUSTRY, ESTABLISHED UNDER THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE, HAD WORKED A BASIC FRAMEWORK BASED ON A LICENSING SYSTEM TO BE RUN ON TWO LEVELS, HE SAID.
THIS WAS THE
OF LICENSING
AND
SECURITY OFFICERS,
SECURITY MAINTAINING
INCLUDING DEVICES;
WATCHMEN. AND PERSONS INSTALLING AND THE LICENSING OF THE SECURITY COMPANIES THEMSELVES.
"THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE SECURITY INDUSTRY
BILL IS NOW BEING
CONSIDERED BY THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
BE PUT BEFORE THIS "OUR AIM IS FOR THE NEW BILL TO DURING THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION. THE WATCHMEN ORDINANCE WILL REPEALED," HE SAID.
WIDER USE OF FLEXIBLE WORKING HOURS PROMOTED
COUNCIL THEN BE
-
USE PEAK
THE GOVERNMENT'S AIM IS TO CONTINUE TO PROMOTE THE WIDER
REDUCE IN ORDER TO OF FLEXIBLE WORKING HOURS IN THE COMMUNITY HOUR TRAFFIC CONGESTION THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID FORD, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY WEDNESDAY).
-
REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON
AMONG RESPONSE SAID ALTHOUGH THE ENCOURAGING. FEEDBACK ON PRIVATE SECTOR PRACTICE IN HOURS HAD BEEN MIXED.
DAVID
GOVERNMENT
CHEUNG, DEPARTMENTS
DAVID BREN FLEXIBLE WORKING
SIR
HAD
SECTOR HE SAID PRIVATE
EMPLOYERS BAD INDICATED THERE WERE STAFF SUPERVISION, SIZE OF AND THE NEED ΤΟ BUSINESS COUNTERPARTS WHICH DETERRED A WIDER APPLICATION OF FLEXIBLE WORKING HOURS.
LIMITATIONS SUCH AS PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT, EMPLOYEES' RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
WITH THEIR SYNCHRONISE THEIR OPERATING HOURS
"NO DOUBT
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