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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1993
SAID IN THE SOME BRITISH INVOLVING
AS FOR THE DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED, MR ASPREY FIRST MONTH OR SO OF THE PHASED REGISTRATION PROGRAMME, POSTS EXPERIENCED TEETHING PROBLEMS WITH THE NEW PROCEDURES IN ISSUING BN(0) PASSPORTS.
"ONE OF WHICH WAS THE DISTRIBUTION OF APPLICATION APPLICANTS WHO DID NOT RESIDE IN THE VICINITY OF THE POST.
"WB
FORMS
то
HAVE ASSISTED TO OVERCOME THESE PROBLEMS, AND WE BELIEVE, TO REDUCE TO A MINIMUM INCONVENIENCE TO BDTCS ABROAD,
* HE SAID.
MR ASPREY POINTED OUT THAT APPLICATION FORMS FOR APPLICANTS WERE AVAILABLE AT
OVERSEAS THE OVERSEAS OFFICES AND AT BRITISH POSTS WHICH DID NOT HAVE PASSPORT ISSUING FUNCTIONS.
"WE ARE NOW ALSO ARRANGING FOR FORMS TO BE MADE HONG KONG FOR PEOPLE WHO WISH TO ASSIST THEIR RELATIVES OVERSEAS IN OBTAINING THE FORMS,
"I HE ADDED.
AVAILABLE IN
AND
FRIENDS
—
NO IMMEDIATE PLAN TO PUBLISH BOOKLET OF PERFORMANCE PLEDGES
THE GOVERNMENT WILL KEEP UNDER REVIEW
BOOKLET OF ALL PERFORMANCE
PUBLISHING DEVELOPMENTS.
A
THE POSSIBILITY PLEDGES IN LIGHT OF
OF
THIS WAS STATED BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID FORD, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON VINCENT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
CHENG IN THE
BROADER
IN THE MEANTIME, FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A COMPLETE SETS OF PUBLISHED PLEDGES ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE UNIT IN THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT, SIR DAVID SAID.
INTEREST, EFFICIENCY
HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT AT THIS STAGE INTEND TO SUCH A BOOKLET.
FROM
PUBLISH
PLEDGES
"THIS IS BECAUSE OUR CUSTOMERS CAN OBTAIN COPIES OF THE DEPARTMENTS THEY VISIT, AND NOTICES OF STANDARDS
PROCEDURES SHOULD NORMALLY BE DISPLAYED AT THE
COMPLAINT
SERVICE."
AND
POINT OF
HE SAID IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO KEEP A BOOKLET UP TO DATE, TAKE ACCOUNT OF CHANGES TO SERVICES AND PERSONNEL IN THE DEPARTMENTS WHICH WOULD HAVE MADE PERFORMANCE PLEDGES BY
TO
50-ODD
MID NEXT
YEAR.
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