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Any person affected by the amendment plan may submit written objections to the Secretary of the Town Planning Board, c/o Planning Department, 13th floor, Murray Building before December 22, 1995.
Copies of the draft plan are available for sale at the Survey and Mapping Office, Lands Department, 14th floor, Murray Building and the Kowloon Map Sales Office, ground floor, 382 Nathan Road, Kowloon.
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Import (Radiation) (Prohibition) Regulations amended
The Import (Radiation) (Prohibition) (Amendment) Regulation 1995, which seeks to provide a definition of "irradiating apparatus" and "radioactive substance" in the existing regulations along the same line as the provisions in the Radiation Ordinance, was published in the Government Gazette today (Friday).
A government spokesman said: "An amendment to the existing Schedule to the Import (Radiation) (Prohibition) Regulations under the Import and Export Ordinance has been approved by the Governor in Council on November 21, 1995.
"Under the amendment, the existing Schedule of chemical elements and apparatus would be repealed and substituted by a new Schedule which makes reference to the new definitions of radioactive substances and irradiating apparatus."
He said: "These two terms are now defined in the Regulation in the same way as they are defined in the Radiation Ordinance.
"Under the Ordinance, radioactive substance means any substance which consists of or contains any radioactive chemical element, whether natural of artificial, and whose specific activity exceeds 75 bequerels of parent radioactive chemical element per gram of substance.
"Irradiating apparatus means any apparatus which is intended to produce or emit ionizing radiation; or is capable of producing or emitting ionizing radiation at a dose rate exceeding five microsievert per hour at a distance of five centimetres from any accessible point of the surface of the apparatus."
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