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Sino-British Land Commission reaches agreement
The following is issued on behalf of the Sino-British Land Commission:
The thirty-first meeting of the Sino-British Land Commission was held on November 24, 1995. The two sides reached agreement on the following:
(1) the 1995-96 Land Disposal Programme is adjusted to provide, under the special requirements category, 67 hectares of land for the River Trade Terminal at Tuen Mun and five hectares of land for the extension of the Third Industrial Estate at Tseung Kwan O; and
(2) the average cost of land production for 1995-96 is Hong Kong Dollars 5,093 per square metre.
End/Friday, November 24, 1995
Proposed codification of conspiracy and other offences
A bill seeking to codify the offences of conspiracy, attempt and incitement to commit an offence was gazetted today (Friday).
A Legal Department spokesman said the Crimes (Amendment) Bill 1995, which largely followed the recommendations of the Law Reform Commission (LRC) Report, aimed to reform the preliminary offences of conspiracy, attempt and incitement through codification to address the problems of imprecision and inconsistencies.
The spokesman said that in Hong Kong, the laws governing the preliminary offences of conspiracy, attempt and incitement were based almost entirely on judicial precedents.
They suffered from imprecision and inconsistencies and were not readily available, he said.