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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1987

DR CHIU ALSO NOTED THAT THE BILL WAS

INTRODUCED

AS

A RESULT

OF A PROPOSAL HE MADE IN THE COUNCIL LAST YEAR TO EXTEND THE SCOPE OF THE BOARD'S ACTIVITIES TO INCLUDE MEASURES TO PREVENT PNEUMOCONIOSIS.

ALSO SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL, THE HON HO IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PNEUMOCONIOSIS COMPENSATION FUND PNEUMOCONIOSIS MUST BE PREVENTED BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE.

SAI-CHU, WHO BOARD, SAID

HE SAID MORE WORK SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE ON PREVENTIVE MEASURES.

"MERELY PAYING OUT

COMPENSATION TO THOSE

KEEP

WHO HAVE ALREADY FALLEN VICTIM TO THE DISEASE, WILL NOT, IN THE LONG RUN, HELP TO THE DISEASE UNDER CONTROL, HE NOTED.

"

#1 MILLION ON EXPENDITURE THE HIGHER

ON THE PROPOSED LIMIT OF THE ANNUAL EXPENDITURE OF FOR PREVENTIVE WORK, MR HO SAID SOME FORM OF CONTROL

FEEL MIGHT

CONCERNED THAT INDUSTRY WAS NEEDED AS THE EXPENDITURE WOULD EVENTUALLY LEAD TO AN INCREASE IN THE LEVY.

HOWEVER,

HE

POINTED

OUT

THAT

EXPENDITURE

NOT

BE

SHOULD AFFECTED BECAUSE OF ANY CONSTRAINTS IN THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.

MR HO THEREFORE

HOPED THAT

THE

REVIEWS OF

THE CEILING ON ANNUAL

BOARD WOULD MAKE PERIODIC

THE LIGHT IN EXPENDITURE

OF

REQUIREMENTS.

DEBATE,

THE

THEM

WINDING UP THE MANPOWER, THE HON RON BRIDGE THANKED DR SUPPORT FOR THE BILL AND ASSURED LIMITATIONS ON EXPENDITURE ON RESEARCH BOARD.

FOR EDUCATION AND SECRETARY

CHIU AND MR HO FOR THEIR THAT THEIR VIEWS ABOUT THE WOULD BE PASSED ON TO THE

BILL IMPROVES CONVEYANCING, PROPERTY LAW

EXPERIENCE SHOWS THERE IS SCOPE FOR IMPROVING THE LAW RELATING THE HON MICHAEL TO CONVEYANCING AND PROPERTY, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, THOMAS, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MOVING THE SECOND READING

OF THE

{ AMENDMENT) BILL 1987, MR THOMAS ENACTED IN 1984.

CONVEYANCING AND PROPERTY SAID THE PRINCIPAL ORDINANCE WAS

BE A USEFUL HE SAID THAT MAJOR PIECE OF LAW REFORM PROVED TO

"EXPERIENCE MEASURE BUT AS WAS EXPECTED AT THE TIME OF ITS ENACTMENT, HAS SHOWN THAT THERE IS

FOR

IMPROVEMENT EXPANSION, SCOPE REFINEMENT OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL ORDINANCE.

AND

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