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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1990
POSITIVE STEPS
HOSPITALS
AND THE
"THE BOARD ADVISED THAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE
AT ITS TO INTRODUCE LABELLING OF MEDICINES DISPENSED CLINICS AND TO EDUCATE PROFESSIONALS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ON BENEFITS OF LABELLING," SHE SAID.
MRS WONG
ADDED
THAT
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS
ENCOURAGE THEIR MEMBERS TO PRACTISE LABELLING.
SHOULD ALSO
PAYMENT OF HONORARIUM CONSISTENT WITH POLICY
LANDS
THE PAYMENT OF AN HONORARIUM TO AN OFFICER IN THE FORMER AND WORKS BRANCH WAS APPROVED BY FINANCE COMMITTEE AND IS CONSISTENT POLICY то REWARD CIVIL SERVANTS FOR WITH THE LONG ESTABLISHED
HIGHER SIGNIFICANTLY
RESPONSIBILITY LEVEL OF PERFORMING WORK AT A
SUBSTANTIVE RANKS. THE CHIEF THAN THAT NORMALLY EXPECTED OF THEIR SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID FORD, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY),
BY
IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
CONTENTION THE HON POON CHI-FAI, SIR DAVID SAID HE DID NOT ACCEPT THE
REFERRED CONTAINED IN THE QUESTION THAT THE PAYMENT OF THE HONORARIUM TO CAUSED CONCERN AND DISCONTent.
WHO,
CONCERNED A D2 THE CHIEF SECRETARY POINTED OUT THAT THE CASE
BRANCH
THROUGHOUT THE AND WORKS OFFICER IN THE FORMER LANDS
1989. UNDERTOOK DUTIES AND PERIOD FROM APRIL 1, 1988 TO AUGUST 31, RESPONSIBILITIES APPROPRIATE TO A D3 OFFICER.
"NORMALLY, HIS POST WOULD HAVE BEEN UPGRADED TO D3 AND HE WOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED AN ACTING ALLOWANCE.
TIME WHEN
WOULD HAVE
"THIS WAS NOT DONE, HOWEVER, BECAUSE THE UPGRADING NECESSITATED A MAJOR REDELINEATION OF DUTIES AND RESTRUCTURING OF THE ORGANISATION AT WORKS BRANCH AND
AND ITS GROUP OF DEPARTMENTS RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE BRANCH ABOUT TO BE REVIEWED. SIR DAVID EXPLAINED.
LANDS
A
THE
AND WERE
THE
NAMELY THE EXISTENCE
THE CHIEF SECRETARY POINTED OUT THAT IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES. MAIN CRITERION FOR PAYMENT OF ACTING ALLOWANCE, OF A VACANT SENIOR POST, WAS NOT MET.
“ተር "IN FAIRNESS
THE
APPROVAL WAS SOUGHT FOR PAYMENT OF
KECIL
FINANCE OFFICER. HOWEVER,
SPROTAL HONORARIUM WHICH WOULD
WAS APPROVAL
COMMITTEE'S
($122,300)
HAVE BEEN
GIVEN ON
EQUIVALENT TO THE AMOUNT OF ACTING ALLOWANCE
PAYABLE HAD A D3 DECEMBER 8. 1989,
POST
BEEN CREATED.
HE SAID.
/SIR DAVID