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WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1989

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SECURE SEATS FOR PASSENGERS IN A GOODS VEHICLE

PASSENGERS IN A GOODS FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1989, WOULD BE REQUIRED TO BE SEATED IN A PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED

LEUNG, MICHAEL SEAT, THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, THE THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

ALL

VEHICLE

AND

HON

SECURED INFORMED

MR VEHICLE

HON RONALD CHOW. IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE LEUNG SAID THAT DRIVERS WOULD NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE A WITH A PORTER RIDING ON THE TAILBOARD OR THE LOAD.

REQUIRE ENCLOSED PROTECTIVE

EFFECTIVE

DRAFT LEGISLATION WAS ALSO BEING PREPARED TO

ΤΟ HAVE AN VEHICLE VAN-TYPE LIGHT GOODS PARTITION BETWEEN THE PASSENGER SEATS AND THE GOODS COMPARTMENT.

THAT

PRESENT, AT

THE

ROAD

(TRAFFIC LOAD WAS THE

TRAFFIC MR LEUNG SAID CONTROL) REGULATIONS REQUIRED ALL DRIVERS TO ENSURE THAT THE

OF IT TOUCHED PROPERLY SECURED TO THE VEHICLE, THAT NO PORTION GROUND OR WAS SOLELY SUPPORTED BY THE TAILGATE.

AND PRACTICAL

GUIDANCE

ON THE SAFE

THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS CARRIAGE OF GOODS AND PASSENGERS WERE ALREADY PROVIDED IN THE CODE OF

WHICH WAS DISTRIBUTED TO PRACTICE FOR THE LOADING OF VEHICLES, GOODS VEHICLE OPERATORS IN NOVEMBER 1988.

ALL

THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT HAD ORGANISED A GOODS VEHICLE

OF METHODS CORRECT EXHIBITION TO DEMONSTRATE THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF LORRIES AND TRUCKS.

LOADING

SECURELY

LOADING

THE

SAFETY AND

LEGAL

CONTINUE WOULD REQUIREMENTS

TO BE

PUBLICISED, HE SAID.

SPENDING ON VIETNAMESE AMOUNTS TO $1,458 MILLION

EXPENDITURE ON VIETNAMESE REFUGEES AND BOAT PEOPLE INCURRED

HAS AMOUNTED ΤΟ $1.458.03 THE GOVERNMENT SINCE 1979

ACTING SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON ALISTAIR ASPREY, LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

BY

MILLION, INFORMED

THE THE

MR ASPREY GAVE THIS FIGURE IN A WRITTEN FROM THE HON RONALD CHOW.

REPLY TO A QUESTION

/HE PROVIDED

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