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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1990
REFINING LAW ON CERTIFICATION OF ORIGIN SYSTEM
* * * * * *
A. BILL TO UPDATE AND REFINE SELECTED
NON-GOVERNMENT PROTECTION OF
TO RENDER IT MORE ORDER CERTIFICATION SYSTEM, WAS
TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
PROVISIONS
OF THE
CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN ORDINANCE IN CONSISTENT WITH THE PRESENT ORIGIN INTRODUCED INTO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
NON-GOVERNMENT
OF MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE PROTECTION CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON SIR PIERS JACOBS, SAID THE ORDINANCE WAS ENACTED IN IT HAD BEEN LAST AMENDED IN 1982.
IT PROVIDED
1967
AND
CERTIFICATES
OF
FOR THE BETTER PROTECTION OF ORIGIN ISSUED BY GOVERNMENT-APPROVED CERTIFICATION ORGANISATIONS.
SAID, THE POWERS DETENTION,
IN
TO
HIGHLIGHTING THE PRINCIPAL PROPOSALS OF THE BILL, HE
THAT OFFICERS, RELATION TO THE POWERS OF AUTHORISED ENFORCE THE ORDINANCE, INCLUDING SEARCH, SEIZURE AND VESTED WITH AUTHORISED OFFICERS, THAT WAS, COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS AND EXCISE, AND THE POLICE.
WERE THOSE AUTHORISED BY THE
USED IN
TO AMEND
TO
POLICE
"SINCE THE POWERS GIVEN TO THE POLICE HAVE NEVER BEEN
HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CARRY OUT PRACTICE AND THE AUTHORISED OFFICERS
THE BILL SEEKS THEIR DUTIES SATISFACTORILY ON THEIR OWN, SECTION 10 OF
ALL
POWERS, HE SAID.
THE ORDINANCE
ΤΟ
ON PENALTIES, SIR PIERS SAID
DELETE
THE BILL
REFERENCES
ΤΟ SOUGHT
PENALTIES GENERALLY FOR OFFENCES SPECIFIED IN THE ORDINANCE
RAISE THE FROM THE
OR IMPRISONMENT
TWO YEARS'
YEAR'S
AND $500,000
PRESENT LEVEL
$100,000 AND ONE
OF EITHER $50,000 AND
YEAR'S IMPRISONMENT
ONE TO
IMPRISONMENT.
"THIS SERVES
TO ALIGN THE UNDER SIMILAR OFFENCES REFERRED TO EXPORT ORDINANCES.
PENALTY LEVELS
36 SECTION
OF
WITH THOSE FOR THE IMPORT AND
TURN FACILITATE HE SAID.
"THE UNIFORMITY IN THE PENALTY LEVEL WOULD IN ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY IN PROSECUTION WORK,
BILL SOUGHT ON NEW OFFENCES, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY SAID THE
ORDER TO ENHANCE THE TO ADD THREE NEW OFFENCES TO THE ORDINANCE IN DETERRENT EFFECT OF THE LEGISLATION AGAINST MALPRACTICE AND DAMAGE THE INTEGRITY OF THE HONG KONG CERTIFICATION SYSTEM.
X
TO
ORGANISATIONS DISHONESTLY ISSUING
HTHE FIRST OFFENCE RELATES TO. REPRESENTING THEMSELVES TO BE GOVERNMENT-APPROVED CERTIFICATE AUTHORITIES.
ISSUING THE
BELIEVING
BY
OF A THAT GOVERNMENT-APPROVED
DOCUMENT
LIKELY TO IS THE DOCUMENT
A CERTIFICATE
"THE SECOND CONCERNS MISLEAD ANOTHER PERSON INTO CERTIFICATE OF ORIGIN ISSUED ISSUING AUTHORITIES.
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