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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1990
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MR BARNES SAID: "THERE ARE MOREOVER ADEQUATE STAPP RESOURCES
UNAUTHORISED BUILDING WORKS, WHICH TO DEAL EXPEDITIOUSLY WITH ALSO KNOWN TO BE DANGEROUS.
PRIORITY TARGET ORDINANCE SOME RUSTY PROJECTING AND ARE ACTED ON THE BUILDINGS
"INDEED DANGER, KNOWN DANGER, IS THE HIGHEST OF THE UNAUTHORISED BUILDING WORKS SECTION OF THE BUILDINGS
SOME SUCH BUILDING WORKS, SUCH AS OFFICE. WINDOW CAGES ARE OBVIOUSLY BOTH ILLEGAL AND DANGEROUS
OR COMPLAINT UPON EITHER ON THE BASIS OF PUBLIC ORDINANCE OFFICE'S INITIATIVE.
OTHER IN
WORKS, HOWEVER,
WHICH MAY APPEAR
LIKE LEGAL
BUILDING WORKS, NEITHER THE DANGER NOR THE ILLEGALITY MAY BE APPARENT, AND THESE MAY BE AN EVEN GREATER THREAT TO LIFE AND LIMB."
ONE WOULD BE DEGREE OF
MR BARNES SAID COLLAPSES OF A SCALE SIMILAR TO THE RECENT AT TO KWA WAN WOULD CONTINUE TO BE RARE AND THE CASE, WHICH THE SUBJECT OF A CORONER'S INQUEST, HAD CAUSED A VERY HIGH PUBLIC CONCERN.
OF ENFORCEMENT HE SAID GOVERNMENT INSPECTIONS,
REPAIRS AND
ON A DAY TO ACTION AGAINST UBW'S
DAY BASIS ENSURED THAT THERE COLLAPSES
WOULD PAR WERE
THAN LESS BUILDING
THAT OTHERWISE AND SINCE THE TO KWA WAN. CASE, THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE BEEN GIVING
ATTENTION
CANOPIES
BE.
HAD
ΤΟ
WHICH
NEED ROUTINE
THE SAFETY
SPECIAL
RESPONSIBILITY FOR INSPECTION. BUT THE LEGAL AND MORAL OF A PRIVATE BUILDING WAS FIRMLY IN THE HANDS OF ITS OWNER.
OF THE MR BARNES SAID THERE WAS NO WAY IN WHICH THE RESOURCES
LEVEL REQUIRED BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE COULD BE BROUGHT UP TO THE TO RELIEVE OWNERS OF THIS RESPONSIBILITY OR THAT THEY SHOULD BE.
BUILDINGS AND BUILDING
MR BARNES ALSO POINTED OUT THAT THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS WOULD REPORT EARLY NEXT YEAR ON MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN SAFETY CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT.
THAT THE IN RESOURCES CAN A JOINT EFFORT BE SUCCESSFULLY
HE SAID: "I AM CONFIDENT THAT THE OPEN CONSULTATION BUILDINGS AND LANDS DEPARTMENT IS PRESENTLY CONDUCTING WILL RESULT POSITIVE RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO HOW PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BE POOLED MOST EFFECTIVELY, FOR IT IS ONLY WITH SUCH AND MUTUAL COOPERATION THAT THIS IMMENSE PROBLEM CAN TACKLED.
I HAVE SAID THAT THE
LIABILITY FOR
PARTY THE INJURY WHICH RESULTED IN AND LIABILITY MUST REMAIN A
"IT FOLLOWS FROM WHAT COMPENSATION TO INJURED PERSONS MUST IN MOST CASES LIE WITH THE RESPONS (BLE FOR THE NEGLIGENCE, IF ANY, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT JUDICIAL PROCESS,
OF NEGLIGENCE
MR BARNES ADDED,
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