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The test is there to ensure that those benefiting from this non-means-tested and non-contributory allowance are genuinely elderly citizens of Hong Kong - not persons visiting Hong Kong simply to take advantage of this allowance. Our residence requirements are already generous by international standards. For example, in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, the residence requirement for old age pensions is 10 years.
In view of these considerations, I can see no case for relaxing or reviewing the existing residential eligibility criteria for the Old Age Allowance.
End/Wednesday, July 12, 1995
Fixed penalty tickets
Following is a question by the Hon Zachary Wong Wai-yin and a reply by the Secretary for Transport, Mr Haider Barma, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
The Police have adopted, for sometime the measure of issuing Fixed Penalty Tickets without prior warning to the drivers of vehicles illegally parked and waiting in the Central and Tsim Sha Tsui districts. In this regard, will the Government inform this Council:
(a)
(b)
of the breakdown by month of the number of Fixed Penalty Tickets issued since the adoption of such a measure, together with the total number of motor vehicles which have been issued with more than one Fixed Penalty Ticket and the highest number of Fixed Penalty Tickets issued to the same vehicle; and
whether such a measure has achieved the result expected; if not, what further measures the Government will take to deter drivers from illegal parking and waiting?