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REHOUSING JULD BE OFFERED WHERE APPROPRIATE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SECRETARY THE LDC'S ELIC LITY CRITERIA AND TERMS AS AGREED BY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS.
FLOOR OWNER HAD 187-193 QUEEN'S AN AGREED
REFERRING TO A CASE WHICH INVOLVED PREMISES ON THE THIRD OF 189 QUEEN'S ROAD EAST, MR BARNES POINTED OUT THAT THE AGREED TO SURRENDER THE PREMISES AND SOME OTHERS AT ROAD TO THE GOVERNMENT WITH VACANT POSSESSION AS PART OF LAND EXCHANGE TO THE GOVERNMENT.
"NO RESUMPTION IS INVOLVED AND HENCE THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TENANTS OF THESE PREMISES.
"ANY ARRANGEMENTS FOR COMPENSATION ARE TENANTS AND THE PRESENT OWNER OF THE PREMISES,
T
GOVERNMENT HAS NO
MATTERS BETWEEN THE HE SAID.
HE ADDED THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE OWNER AND TENANTS OF LANDLORD AND TENANT THE CASE WAS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE (CONSOLIDATION) ORDINANCE AND NORMAL COMMERCIAL PRACTICE, OF WHICH THE GOVERNMENT HAD LITTLE CAUSE TO INTERVENE.
GOVT SETS EXAMPLE TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS
BY IMPOSING A MORATORIUM
*
* *
A MORATORIUM
ON
FEE
REVISIONS
SET BY THE TO TAKE STEPS TO
IT IS CLEAR THAT BY IMPOSING UNTIL THE END OF FEBRUARY 1992, A CLEAR EXAMPLE HAS BEEN GOVERNMENT TO BOTH THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS CURB INFLATIONARY EXPECTATIONS.
JACOBS, SAID THIS
THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON SIR PIERS WHEN GIVING A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON TAI CHIN-WAH.
WAS HE
GRATIFIED TO
SEE
IN THAT CONNECTION, SIR PIERS SAID THAT THE LEAD HAD ALREADY GAINED THE SUPPORT OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.
WHILE IT WAS THE GOVERNMENT'S
ANNOUNCED ON
FEE REVISIONS
THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY SAID
HE ANNUALLY, NORMAL POLICY TO REVISE FEES AND CHARGES MAY 29 THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD PLACE A MORATORIUM ON UNTIL THE END OF FEBRUARY NEXT YEAR.
THAT
THE
RISE IN THE
RATE
"AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN THAT WAS FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE
PERCEPTION LEAD THUS ALTERING THE INFLATION WAS INEXORABLE," HE SAID.
A
OF
SO FAR, THE PROPOSED REVISION OF 2,249 BEEN HELD UP, SIR PIERS NOTED.
FEES AND CHARGES HAD
"WHILE THE INFLATIONARY IMPACT OF THE ORIGINAL PROPOSALS NOT HAVE BEEN GREAT EVEN IF THEY HAD GONE AHEAD, IT IS CLEAR
HAS
SET BEEN IMPOSING THE MORATORIUM A CLEAR EXAMPLE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS," SIR PIERS SAID.
WOULD THAT BY
то
BOTH
THE
/SIR PIERS
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