XN000022-1972-08-02 — Page 12

12

-

Wednesday, August 2, 1972

BILL TO REMOVE RESTRICTIONS UNDER PERJURY ORDINANCE

Experience has shown that sometimes the falsity of a statement in

connection with the registration of a birth or death, and hence the commission

of the offence, doos not come to light until some years afterwards.

This was stated today by the Acting Attorney General, the Hon. G.R.

Sneath, in the Legislative Council while moving the second reading of the

Perjury (Amendment) Bill 1972.

The bill seeks to abolish the time limit within which a prosecution

may be brought against a person giving false evidence information in matters

connected with births and deaths.

Under the existing law, proceedings cannot be instituted after three

years have elapsed from the time the offence was committed.

COMMUNITY CENTRES IN DENSELY POPULATED AREAS

The Hon. G.T. Rowe, Director of Social Welfare, said today the

Government was planning to meet the need for community facilities in densely

populated areas by setting up centres, halls and estate welfare buildings.

He was replying in the Legislative Council to the Hon. Wilson Wang

who had also asked when the last hall had been built, and when the next one

would be.

Mr. Rowe said the latest community centre in the Tai Hang Tung Resettlement

Estate had been built in 1966, and the next community centre in Chai Wan was

expected to be completed in 1974.

But he stressed that the intervening period between these two dates was

being filled by the provision of estate welfare buildings, community halls and

social service centres serving the same purpose.

/13