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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1991
MORE OUTLETS NEEDED FOR POLITICAL FUND RAISING
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INEVITABLE
AND ACCEPTABLE AFFAIRS,
RAISING POLITICAL FUND
IS A LEGITIMATE AND KONG'S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT CONSEQUENCE OF HONG OUTLETS NEED TO BE PROVIDED FOR THEM, THE SECRETARY FOR HOME THE HON PETER TSAO, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
WAS
OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE SUMMARY BILL 1991. MR TSAO SAID AT PRESENT THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE
OF MONEY IN THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY FOR ISSUING PERMITS FOR COLLECTION PUBLIC PLACES, BUT HE NORMALLY ONLY ISSUED PERMITS FOR COLLECTIONS FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.
YEARS.
THIS ARRANGEMENT, HE SAID, HAD WORKED
WELL FOR A NUMBER OF
H
PARTICULARLY THE
OF
REPRESENTATIVE DIRECT ELECTION TO THE CHANGE, MR TSAO
HOWEVER, DEVELOPMENTS IN OUR SYSTEM
OF ADVENT GOVERNMENT, LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THE NEED FOR
SAID.
IN THIS CONNECTION, HE SAID THE PROVIDE A
FOR THE NEW ARRANGEMENT COLLECTION OF MONEY IN PUBLIC PLACES.
OBJECT OF
OF ISSUE
"
THE BILL WAS TO PERMITS FOR THE.
WELFARE UNDER THE PROPOSED ARRANGEMENT, THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL
FOR CHARITABLE WOULD CONTINUE TO ISSUE PERMITS FOR SUCH COLLECTIONS PURPOSES WHILE THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS WOULD ISSUE PERMITS COLLECTIONS FOR "ANY OTHER PURPOSES".
NOTING THAT A
WIDE VARIETY OF
THE
OUTLETS
FOR
FOR
FUND
POLITICAL
WERE FREE TO AND THE NEVERTHELESS
RAISING ALREADY EXISTED THESE GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS RAISE FUNDS IN PRIVATELY OWNED PREMISES AND THROUGH THE MAIL
SAID
ADMINISTRATION
PRINTED MEDIA, MR
TSAO
THE
WAS
MINDFUL OF THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL OUTLETS IN SUITABLE PUBLIC PLACES.
TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE CROWDED "IN SO DOING, HOWEVER, WE MUST
AND THE NEED ΤΟ AVOID CONDITIONS OF OUR STREETS AND THOROUGHFARES, AND COMPETITION WITH CHARITABLE FUND RAISING WHICH IS HIGHLY DEPENDENT INCOME FROM STREET COLLECTION.
ON
IN OUR VIEW IS "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, THE BEST ARRANGEMENT
IN CONFINED PUBLIC PLACES FOR POLITICAL FUND RAISING TO BE ALLOWED
ATTENDANCE SUCH AS STADIA, CIVIC CENTRES, AND COMMUNITY CENTRES WHERE
HE SAID. WOULD NOT BE INCIDENTAL BUT WOULD BE FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE,
"AMONG OTHER
THINGS,
THE GUIDELINES WISH TO BE
WHICH IN WAYS
NORMALLY THE SECRETARY WILL
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A SET OF GUIDELINES HAD ALREADY BEEN PREPARED, MR TSAO SAID.
SET
THAT OUT, FIRST, SATISFIED THAT THE FUNDS
TO DIRECTLY
THE WILL RAISED
BE USED
CONTRIBUTE
AND SECONDLY + DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG,
PLACES, THAT THE FUND RAISING ACTIVITIES ARE TO BE HELD IN CONFINED HE SAID.
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/MR TSAO