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Reply:
Mr President,
We are considering the practicability of legislation to require motorists to switch off the engines of their vehicles during waiting time. To this end we are gathering information about regulatory controls elsewhere and shall examine the likely impact of such control measures on the operating practice of various transport modes. In the meantime, we are also planning to launch a publicity campaign to encourage drivers to switch off their vehicles while waiting.
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Issue of ID cards to non-BDTCs
Following is a question by the Hon Henry Tang Ying-yen and a written reply by the Secretary for Security, Mr Peter Lai, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Will the Government inform this Council whether any non-British Dependent Territories citizen with less than seven years' residency in the territory was issued with a Hong Kong Permanent Identity Card in the past; if so, what the reasons for this were, and the number of cases in which Hong Kong Permanent Identity Cards were issued to such persons in each of the past 5 years?
Reply:
Mr President,
Hong Kong Permanent Identity Cards are issued to persons who have the right of abode in Hong Kong. The categories of persons who are Hong Kong permanent residents are defined in Schedule 1 to the Immigration Ordinance, Cap. 115.
Category 3 in Schedule 1 comprises Commonwealth citizens who immediately before 1 January 1983 was a British subject married or had been married to, or was a child of, a person who immediately before 1 January 1983 was :-
(i)
a British subject who was born in Hong Kong;
(ii)
a British subject by naturalisation in Hong Kong; or