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Friday, August 11, 1972

MORE EFFECTIVE CONTROL OVER HAWKERS

Another major step was taken today towards making hawkers carry on

their business in a more orderly way •

An amending bill, published in today's Gazette, contains more effective

measures to control the activities of hawkers,

If passed into law, the Public Health and Urban Services (Amendment)

(No. 4) Bill will pave the way for revised hawker by-laws and regulations to be

enacted in time for the "Clean Hong Kong" sampaign.

Commenting on the bill, the Assistant Director of Urban Services,

Mr. Gus Chui, said that under it, legitimate hawkers would be able to continue

to ply their trade in an orderly manner, free from interference and unfair

competition from illegal pedlars,

"The bill," he said, "aets only against irresponsible hawking and

legitimate hawkers will enjoy greater security as a result."

Referring to the "Clean Hong Kong" campaign, Mr. Chui said: "To clean

Hong Kong, you have to clean up the hawker areas and it is impossible to do this

until the stalls are organised in an orderly way and hawkers obey the law."

"We will still mainly rely on co-operation and education, but inevitably

we need new legislation to act against the selfish few," he added,

The bill seeks to give further effect to the Urban Council's revised

hawker policy.

The ultimate aim of this policy is to provide proper off-street bazaars

for all hawkers. This will take some time to achieve and in the meantime hawkers

will continue to be allocated sites in streets set aside for hawking and in off-

street bazaars,

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