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Amusement rides operation fees to be revised
Fees specified in the Amusement Rides (Safety) Ordinance and the Amusement Rides (Safety) (Operation and Maintenance) Regulation will be revised with effect from March 8, subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.
"The existing fees were introduced in December 1994 and since then have not been revised.
"A recent costing review shows that they are much below the cost of providing the service," a spokesman for the Recreation and Culture Branch said today (Wednesday).
"It is government policy that fees should in general be set at levels sufficient to recover the full cost of providing the services.
"However, as the new arrangements for control of the operation of amusement rides have only been implemented for just about a year, we consider it more appropriate to revise the fees generally by reference to the Government Consumption Expenditure Deflator movement which is nine per cent from 1994-95 to 1995-96 with two exceptions."
"They are the fees relating to the approval of a person as surveyor and amendment to a limited certificate of approval held by a surveyor, which will be increased by three per cent only," the spokesman added.
The Amusement Rides (Safety)(Fees)(Amendment) Regulation 1996 to provide for the fee increases will be published in the Gazette on January 26 and tabled in the Legislative Council on January 31.