FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1991
THE BILL REMOVES CRIMINAL PENALTIES RELATING HETEROSEXUAL BUGGERY WITH A WOMAN OVER THE AGE OF 21.
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THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION ALSO OFFERS PROTECTION TO BY PROVIDING A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF 10 YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR BUGGERY WITH A MALE OR FEMALE DEFECTIVE.
DEFECTIVES
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THE CRIMES ORDINANCE CONTAINS A NUMBER OF PROVISIONS WHICH PROTECT FEMALES FROM CERTAIN ASPECTS OF HETEROSEXUAL CONDUCT AND THE BILL PROVIDES FOR THE MAJORITY OF THESE PROVISIONS TO BE EXTENDED TO PROTECT MALES FROM CORRESPONDING HETEROSEXUAL OR HOMOSEXUAL ACTS.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE BILL WAS ALSO AIMED AT SAFEGUARDING STANDARDS OF PUBLIC DECENCY. IT PROVIDES FOR A MAXIMUM PENALTY OF FIVE YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR A MAN WHO COMMITS HOMOSEXUAL BUGGERY AND TWO YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR HOMOSEXUAL ACTS OF GROSS INDECENCY COMMITTED OTHERWISE THAN IN PRIVATE. THIS APPLIES TO ACTS WHEN MORE THAN TWO PEOPLE TAKE PART OR ARE PRESENT, OR THOSE WHICH OCCUR IN PUBLIC PLACES SUCH AS A LAVATORY OR BATHHOUSE.
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"THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF COMMON LAW UNDER WHICH IT IS ALREADY AN OFFENCE TO COMMIT AN ACT WHETHER THIS INVOLVES HOMOSEXUAL HETEROSEXUAL
WAY THAT BEHAVIOUR, OUTRAGING PUBLIC DECENCY IN SUCH A THAN ONE PERSON SEES, OR IS AT LEAST ABLE TO SEE, THE ACT," EXPLAINED.
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1991/92 PROVISIONAL LAND SALES PROGRAMME
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FOLLOWING ON FROM THE LAND COMMISSION'S AGREEMENT ΤΟ DISPOSAL OF 81.285 HECTARES (HA) OF LAND DURING 1991/92, GOVERNMENT'S PROVISIONAL LAND SALES PROGRAMME WOULD COMPRISE AN OF 24.07 HA INVOLVING 35 SITES, PRINCIPAL GOVERNMENT LAND OF THE BUILDINGS AND LANDS DEPARTMENT, MR BOB POPE, ANNOUNCED (FRIDAY).
MR POPE
THE
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AGENT
TODAY
WHICH
EXPLAINED THAT 22 SITES WILL BE AUCTIONED INCLUDED FOUR HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL SITES IN KOWLOON, ALL OF WHICH ARE, OR PREVIOUSLY WERE, GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTAL AND NON-DEPARTMENTAL QUARTERS.
TWO COMMERCIAL SITES, ONE IN ABERDEEN AND ONE IN KOWLOON WEST, WILL REQUIRE RESPECTIVELY THE INCORPORATION OF A MULTI-STOREY LORRY PARK AND A MULTI-STOREY CARPARK.
SITES, A FURTHER SIX
IN ADDITION TO THE GOVERNMENT QUARTERS SITES WILL BE AUCTIONED FOR RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES AND NINE SITES WILL BE SOLD FOR INDUSTRIAL/GODOWN PURPOSES.
AS FAR AS SITES TO BE TENDERED ARE CONCERNED, THIS COMPRISED IN THE MAIN THREE LARGE SITES FOR THE PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION SCHEME WHICH WILL PRODUCE A TOTAL OF 6,830 FLATS.
/MR POPE