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We propose to rectify this situation by exempting site based vehicles from the compulsory third party insurance requirements under the MVIO, thereby placing liabilities arising in connection with such vehicles clearly within the ambit of the standard all risks insurance policies taken out by contractors.
Mr President, the Motor Vehicles Insurance (Third Party Risks) Amendment Bill 1995 is the result of the concerted efforts of the Financial Services Branch, Transport Branch and Works Branch. I therefore speak also for my colleagues, the Secretary for Transport and the Secretary for Works, in commending the bill to this Council.
End/Wednesday, January 25, 1995
Legal Aid (Amendment) Bill 1995 introduced
Following is the speech by the Acting Chief Secretary, the Hon Michael Leung, in moving the second reading of the Legal Aid (Amendment) Bill 1995 in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Mr President,
I move that the Legal Aid (Amendment) Bill 1995 be read the second time. The Bill puts forward a number of amendments to the Legal Aid Ordinance to implement the recommendations of an inter-departmental working group which conducted a comprehensive review of our legal aid services and a number of additional improvement measures proposed by the Director of Legal Aid in the light of the operating experience of the Legal Aid Department.
The Working Party's report, published in July last year, contains a total of 25 recommendations. Some of these were related to the establishment of a Legal Aid Services Council, which will be the subject of a separate Bill to be introduced into this Council shortly. Most of the remaining recommendations were intended to introduce improvements to the scope and operation of the legal aid scheme. These require legislative amendments to the Legal Aid Ordinance and some subsidiary legislation. I now outline the major improvements provided for in the present Bill.
Clauses 3 and 5 of the Bill provide for increases in the financial eligibility limits for both the standard legal aid scheme and the self-financing Supplementary Legal Aid Scheme for the so-called the sandwich class. The increases take into account the level of inflation since the current limits were set.