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Invitation to apply for registration as a candidate of the Licensing Examination has been published in the press and applications will close on April 30, 1996,
Candidates may, upon verification as being qualified to sit the examination, apply to sit either or both of the "Examination in Professional Knowledge" and the "Proficiency Test in Medical English" in September 1996, but they will have to pass both these two parts before proceeding to the "Clinical Examination" in November/December 1996.
The spokesman also pointed out that to tie in with the timing of the first Licensing Examination, the commencement date for the new legislations relating to medical registration and the licensing examination had since been re-scheduled to September 1, 1996 correspondingly.
That means those registered medical practitioners from the U.K. and certain Commonwealth countries (such as Australia and Singapore) who would be affected by the change in relevant legislation will have until August 31, 1996 to apply to the Medical Council of Hong Kong for direct registration with the support of all necessary documents.
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Road network planned for West Kowloon
The Territory Development Department is planning a complementary road network in West Kowloon, as part of the West Kowloon Reclamation project.
The road network is designed to cater for the traffic growth at the Western Harbour Crossing, West Kowloon Corridor and West Kowloon Expressway as well as future developments on the new reclamation area.
The proposed works involved the construction of Roads NR1 branches off from the Container Port Road to provide access to the adjoining developments, a roundabout at Road NR2 to cater for future road connections, Road P1(A) portion northbound and PI(B)(portion) northbound to link up the road being constructed by the West Kowloon Expressway project, Road NR11 to connect the existing Road D4 and Lai Hong Street, and a footbridge No.33 at the junction of the Roads SR7, D12A and Western Elevated Road.