WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1991
BILL TO GIVE POWER OF SUSPENSION AND REVIVAL OF TRS INTRODUCED
TRIAD RENUNCIATION
THE SECRETARY FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
IT IS THE GOVERNMENT'S INTENTION THAT THE SCHEME (TRS) SHOULD BE SUSPENDED FROM APRIL 1 THIS YEAR FOLLOWING ENACTMENT OF THE SOCIETIES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991, THE SECURITY, THE HON ALISTAIR ASPREY, SAID IN THE TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
ASPREY SAID THE ΤΟ
MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE BILL, MR PURPOSE OF THE BILL WAS TO GIVE THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL THE POWER ORDER THE SUSPENSION AND SUBSEQUENT REVIVAL OF THE TRS,
ON
HE
POINTED OUT THAT THE SCHEME, WHICH CAME INTO OPERATION DECEMBER 8, 1988, PROVIDED A MEANS WHEREBY A PERSON COULD RENOUNCE HIS FOR MEMBERSHIP OF A TRIAD SOCIETY IN RETURN FOR A STAY OF PROSECUTION OFFENCES RELATED TO TRIAD MEMBERSHIP UNDER THE SOCIETIES ORDINANCE.
HE SAID THE FIGHT CRIME COMMITTEE REVIEWED THE SCHEME LAST YEAR AND RECOMMENDED THAT IT SHOULD BE SUSPENDED FROM APRIL 1, 1991.
"THE
THEIR
COMMITTEE CONSIDERED THAT A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS WAS
TO RELINQUISH THOSE ENOUGH FOR
WHO HAVE THE DESIRE INVOLVEMENT TO MAKE USE OF THE SCHEME.
LONG TRIAD
RUN THE "FURTHERMORE, REGULAR EXTENSION OF THE SCHEME WOULD
AND POTENTIAL TRIAD RISK OF SENDING THE WRONG MESSAGE TO EXISTING MEMBERS THAT THEY WOULD ALWAYS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF RENOUNCING AT A LATER STAGE," MR ASPREY SAID.
WOULD HE SAID SUSPENSION, AS OPPOSED TO REPEAL, OF THE SCHEME
LEGISLATION, IF ALLOW IT TO BE REACTIVATED WITHOUT THE NEED FOR NEW THIS WAS FELT NECESSARY IN FUTURE.
"HOWEVER,
I WOULD EMPHASISE THAT THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO
MR ASPREY ADDED. TO REACTIVATE THE SCHEME ONCE IT IS SUSPENDED,
PLANS
"
FIGURES RELEASED BY THE SECRETARY SHOWED THAT UP TO THE END LAST MONTH, A TOTAL OF 959 APPLICATIONS HAD BEEN RECEIVED.
OF
THESE,
549
APPLICATIONS HAD BEEN SUCCESSFUL, UNSUCCESSFUL, 92 HAD BEEN WITHDRAWN AND 237 WERE HELD IN IT HAD NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO CONTACT THE APPLICANTS.
OF
EIGHT
ABEYANCE AS
ΤΟ
TO
"AS IT IS LIKELY THAT SOME APPLICATIONS WILL BE SUBMITTED CLOSE NEED THE DATE OF SUSPENSION, THE TRIAD RENUNCIATION TRIBUNAL WILL
APPLICATIONS HAVE CONTINUE ITS OPERATIONS UNTIL ALL OUTSTANDING BEEN CLEARED.
"AFTER ALL APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN CLEARED, THE TRIBUNAL WILL BE DISSOLVED, THE SECRETARY SAID.
OF
SAID MR
CLAUSE 3
THE BILL ASPREY
PROVIDED ESTABLISHMENT OF A TRIAD RENUNCIATION SECRETARIAT TO TAKE ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF THE TRIBUNAL WHEN CEASED TO EXIST.
FOR
THE OVER THE THE LATTER
/THE TRIAD