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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1988

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CANDIDATES MAY SPEND MORE ON UC/RC ELECTIONS

FOR

AND REGIONAL COMING URBAN THE THE EXPENDITURE CEILING

$35,000 TO MARCH 1989 WILL BE RAISED FROM COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN

URBAN COUNCIL, REGIONAL COUNCIL AND $43,000 AS PROMULGATED IN THE

ORDER 1988 GAZETTED EXPENSES (AMENDMENT) DISTRICT BOARDS ELECTION TODAY (FRIDAY).

OF "THIS ADJUSTMENT, WHICH IS THE RESULT RECENTLY, IS BASED ON INFLATION SINCE AUGUST 1985 LIMIT WAS SET," SAID A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN.

A REVIEW CONDUCTED WHEN THE PREVIOUS

HE SAID THAT THE LIMITS ON ELECTION EXPENSES

A REGULAR BASIS AND IN TWO STAGES.

WERE REVIEWED

ON

EACH ELECTION AND KEEP

"A REVIEW IS CARRIED OUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER AGAIN SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION SO THAT THE LIMITS MAY UP WITH CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES AND INFLATION,

HE SAID.

"THE LIMITS MUST BE NEITHER SO HIGH AS TO GIVE A CANDIDATE WITH LESS WELL-OFF AMPLE FINANCIAL RESOURCES AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OVER HIS

CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES RESTRICT ΤΟ LOW AS

COMPETITORS, UNREASONABLY.”

NOR

SO LOW

FINAL DATE FOR APPLICATIONS FOR EX-GRATIA PAYMENT

* * * * *

DATE

UNDER SECTION 18(2) OF THE TRAVEL AGENTS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, BY WHICH THE FINAL AS APPOINTED JANUARY 23, 1989 HAS BEEN

RESERVE FUND AGENTS' APPLICATIONS FOR EX-GRATIA PAYMENT FROM TRAVEL SHOULD BE MADE BY FORMER CLIENTS OF DEFAULTING TRAVEL AGENTS.

ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (FRIDAY), THE REGISTRAR OF TRAVEL AGENTS, MR JOSEPH WONG SAID THAT THE CLIENTS AFFECTED BY THE AUSTRAVEL AND P.C. TRAVEL SERVICE CASES WERE INVITED TO APPLY FOR EX-GRATIA

AFTER THE COMPLETION IN

PAYMENT

OF

AND JULY APRIL WINDING-UP PROCEEDINGS.

RESPECTIVELY, 1988

"A MAJORITY OF THE

CLIENTS AFFECTED

APPLIED HAVE

AND OVER

3,000 APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED.

"THOSE WHO HAVE NOT YET APPLIED MAY DO SO

AGENTS 1989 BY CONTACTING THE TRAVEL EAST WING, 6TH FLOOR, 500 HENNESSY TELEPHONE NUMBER 5-761921," HE SAID.

REGISTRY

ROAD,

BEFORE JANUARY 23, AT HENNESSY CENTRE,

BAY, CAUSEWAY

HONG KONG.

THE TRAVEL AGENTS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE 1988 NOTICE 1988 WHICH SPECIFIED THAT JANUARY 23, 1989 AS FOR SUCH APPLICATIONS WAS GAZETTED TODAY.

(SPECIFIED DATE)

THE FINAL

DATE

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