As regards the regulatory framework for retirement schemes, Mr Lam noted that the Occupational Retirement Schemes Ordinance was amended on July 6, 1995 to allow assets of schemes participating in pooling agreements to be pooled together. Besides, scheme administrators are allowed to invest, up to 15% of the assets of a registered scheme, in listed shares on stock exchanges in emerging markets which are not recognised by the Securities and Futures Commission.
The Report in English is now on sale at $46 each at the Government Publications Centre at Low Block, Queensway Government Offices, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong. The Chinese version of the Report will be available shortly.
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1996 Population By-census to start tomorrow
The nine-day operation of the 1996 Population By-census will commence tomorrow (Saturday).
About one-seventh of all quarters in Hong Kong have been selected according to a probability sampling scheme for enumerating all households living therein. From March 16 to 24, enumerators will visit sampled households.
All members therein will be asked about their particulars, including year and month of birth, sex, place of birth, marital status, language, nationality, educational attainment, place of work/study, employment details, income, household rent and previous residence.
The Commissioner for Census and Statistics, Mr Frederick Ho, appealed to members of the public for co-operation and support, asking sampled households to provide accurate information at the interviews.
Other people can help in facilitating our enumerators' work, he added.
"Statistics compiled from the information collected in the by-census are vital to Government in planning, particularly in such fields as housing, education, transport, medical care and social services, and to the private sector in formulating business strategies," said Mr Ho.