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Mr Pang was confident that the Land Registry, as one of the forerunners in the Government in developing and practising a customer-based and service-oriented culture, will continue to deliver value-for-money quality service to its customers.
The Land Registry is one of the first trading fund government departments established on August 1, 1993, to operate on a self-financing and quasi-commercial basis, aimed at improving its quality of service to customers.
End/Wednesday, October 18, 1995
Legal Aid Services Council Bill
Following is the speech by the Chief Secretary, the Hon Anson Chan, in moving the second reading of the Legal Aid Services Council (No 2) Bill in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
I move that the Legal Aid Services Council (No 2) Bill be read the second time. The Bill provides for the establishment of an independent Legal Aid Services Council to oversee the publicly-funded legal aid services operated by the Legal Aid Department and the Duty Lawyer Service. Members will recall that this Bill was introduced into this Council on 22 February, but the Council was unable to accord priority to it, as there were other more pressing commitments at that time. So that it lapsed at the end of the 1994/95 session.
The establishment of a Legal Aid Services Council was one of 25 recommendations made by a Working Group whose report was approved by the Executive Council and published in July last year, and which took into account the comments received on proposals set out in a public consultation paper released in April 1993. The other areas covered by the report involved improvements to the scope and operation of the legal aid scheme. These improvements were implemented via the Legal Aid (Amendment) Ordinance 1995, which was passed by this Council on 15 June and commenced operation on 28 July.
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