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SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1989

APPLICATIONS

RELATED

ΤΟ

CASES

OF

HOMICIDE,

MURDER MANSLAUGHTER REMAINED UNCHANGED AT 34 CASES. APPLICATIONS RELATING ARSON DROPPED FROM 25 TO FIVE CASES.

OF THE APPLICATIONS RECEIVED, 767 WERE REFERRED BY AND A TOTAL OF 428 WERE SUBMITTED BY THE VICTIMS THEMSELVES FAMILIES.

AND TO

THE POLICE OR THEIR

PAYMENT OF

DURING THE PERIOD UNDER REVIEW, THE HIGHEST SINGLE $53,370 WAS AWARDED TO FIVE DEPENDANTS OF A TAXI DRIVER WHO WAS KILLED IN A HOMICIDE CASE. THE LOWEST AWARD WAS $190.

THE ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICANT'S ENTITLEMENT TO VARIOUS TYPES OF THE SCHEME DEPENDED ON A OF GRANTS UNDER THE PAYMENT SCHEDULE

VICTIM'S THE

MEDICAL CONDITION, NUMBER

INCLUDING OF FACTORS, EMPLOYMENT RECORDS, AND DEGREE OF DISABILITY.

CONSIDERABLE TIME BEFORE THE EXPEDITE FINANCIAL USUAL PRACTICE то APPROVE

OF

FOR APPLICANTS THE

IN SOME CASES, IT WOULD TAKE A ENTITLEMENT COULD BE FULLY COMPUTED, IN ORDER TO ASSISTANCE TO THE APPLICANTS, IT WAS THE

ELIGIBILITY INTERIM AWARDS AS SOON CERTAIN TYPES OF GRANTS COULD BE ESTABLISHED,

THE AS

CLEIC SCHEME, THE PAYMENT PERIOD OF INJURY TO VICTIMS OF SERIOUS INJURIES

AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING THE WORKING OF THE BOARDS HAD PROPOSED TO EXTEND THE MAXIMUM GRANT AND INTERIM ADJUSTMENT GRANT FROM THREE MONTHS TO SIX MONTHS.

ANOTHER PROPOSAL WAS TO GIVE THE BOARDS DISCRETIONARY POWER INCREASE THE AWARDS

AND TO VICTIMS VICTIMS, то RAPE

IN EFFORTS OF

DEMONSTRATED

EXEMPLARY

IDENTIFICATION

AND

ARREST

ΤΟ

HAD

ASSISTING

THE

CRIMINALS.

IN

WHO POLICE IN SPITE OF

THE PERSONAL

EMBARRASSMENT, INCONVENIENCE OR FEAR.

THE PROPOSALS WERE ACCEPTED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT APPOINTED

THE GOVERNMENT TODAY (SATURDAY) ANNOUNCED THE APPOINTMENT OF MR PANG HAU-CHUNG AS THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT.

MR PANG JOINED GOVERNMENT SERVICE IN 1962 AS AN APPRENTICE ENGINEER. HE WAS PROMOTED TO ASSISTANT ENGINEER IN 1964, ENGINEER IN 1967, SENIOR ENGINEER IN 1973 AND CHIEF ENGINEER IN 1980.

MR PANG HAS BEEN AN ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT SINCE 1982. HIS NEW APPOINTMENT WILL TAKE EFFECT ON JUNE 12.

THE CURRENT DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT, MR RICHARD SCURFIELD. WILL BE LEAVING THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT ΤΟ JOIN AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION AFTER MORE THAN SIX YEARS OF SERVICE IN THE GOVERNMENT.

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