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A SECOND APPOINTED DAY WOULD ALSO BE ESTABLISHED FOR NEW DISCHARGERS - A NEW BUSINESS OPERATION STARTING AFTER THE FIRST APPOINTED TIME - AND IN THIS CASE LICENCES WOULD BE REQUIRED BY THE WATER CONTROL AUTHORITY.
SUCH APPLICATIONS WOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT TO ENABLE ANY PERSON TO OBJECT ON THE GROUNDS THAT GRANTING A LICENCE WOULD LOWER THE WATER QUALITY OBJECTIVE.
MR JONES SAID THE BILL WAS DESIGNED TO ALLOW EXISTING INDUSTRY TO CONTINUE OPERATING IN A REASONABLE MANNER, WHILE GRADUALLY IMPROVING THE OVERALL SITUATION BY IMPOSING CONDITIONS ON NEW UNDERTAKINGS.
POLICE PATROLS IN PICNICKING AREAS
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SPECIAL UNIFORMED AND PLAIN CLOTHES POLICE PATROLS, BOTH MOBILE AND ON FOOT, ARE MOUNTED, AND POLICE DOGS ARE USED IN ALL POPULAR PICNICKING AREAS TO PROTECT PICNICKERS FROM ROBBERS, THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON LEWIS DAVIES TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THIS AFTERNOON.
IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON HO KAM-FAI, MR DAVIES SAID THESE PATROLS WERE INCREASED AT WEEKENDS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS AND IN ESPECIALLY POPULAR AREAS.
*WITHIN COUNTRY PARKS, THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMEN ALSO MAINTAIN A PRESENCE AND LIAISES CLOSELY WITH THE POLICE. DAILY PATROLS ARE UNDERTAKEN BY FOREST GUARDS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND POLICE HELP CAN BE SUMMONED QUICKLY IF NECESSARY THROUGH THE COUNTRY PARK MANAGEMENT CENTRES, HE SAID.
+ THE DEPARTMENT HAS ALSO INTRODUCED AN EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME OF USING UNIFORMED PARK RANGERS TO PATROL THE TWO MOST POPULAR COUNTRY PARKS AT PLOVER COVE AND SOUTH LANTAO.
+ IT INTENDS TO EXTEND THE PARK RANGERS SCHEME TO ALL COUNTRY PARKS WITHIN THE NEXT TWO YEARS, MR DAVIES ADDED.
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