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The REO staff would be matching information provided by the employers with records on the General Electoral Roll (GER).
Notifications would be sent to employees whose particulars have been supplied by the employers and who are registered electors on the GER to invite them to be registered under one of the nine new functional constituencies in accordance with the principal line of business of their employers.
These employees should receive a notification before April 15 informing them of the particular functional constituency to which they belong.
To supplement these efforts, there will be intensive general publicity through the mass media and promotional activities to remind working persons to register as electors in the new functional constituencies.
Registration forms would be available from over 1,500 convenient outlets such as banks and post offices.
The spokesman said if employees did not receive a notification by April 15, they should complete a registration form and send it to the REO before June 1 to ensure that they would be registered in time for the September LegCo elections.
End/Thursday, March 16, 1995
More occasional child care places under planning
The Social Welfare Department (SWD) is planning to provide 225 additional occasional child care places in 1995/96 to cope with increasing demand for the service.
Members of the public who need to leave their children alone at home for whatever reason at any time of the day are advised to make full use of the occasional child care service, a spokesman for the department said today (Thursday).
"Children should under no circumstances be left unattended at home, even for a short while," the spokesman said.
At present, there are 135 child care centres providing a total of 405 occasional child care places to assist needy parents to temporarily look after their children.