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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1990

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REVIEWS OF CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION SCHEME, CIVIL SERVICE DEATH AND INJURY BENEFITS

A SPECIAL REVIEW OF THE CRIMINAL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

AND RECENTLY COMPENSATION SCHEME HAS BEEN COMPLETED

INJURIES

RECOMMENDATIONS SECRETARY, THE HON

FOR IMPROVEMENTS ARE BEING CONSIDERED, THE CHIEF SIR DAVID FORD, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON POON CHI-FAI, DAVID ALSO SAID A FULL-SCALE REVIEW WAS BEING MADE OF TO CIVIL SERVANTS DUTY-RELATED DEATH AND INJURY BENEFITS APPLICABLE

SIR

AND DEPENDANTS.

MR POON'S QUESTION WAS IN TWO PARTS: CONCERNING PROVIDED WHEN A CIVIL SERVANT DIED OR WAS INJURED WHILE ON ASSISTANCE PROVIDED WHEN A CITIZEN DIED OR WAS INJURED IN FIGHT CRIME.

ASSISTANCE DUTY; AND HELPING TO

AND

IN

TIME

TO

THE

ON THE LATTER, SIR DAVID EXPLAINED THAT UNDER THE CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT INJURIES COMPENSATION SCHEME, WHICH WAS INTRODUCED

THE RATES OF COMPENSATION MAY 1973,

WERE REVISED FROM TIME, USUALLY ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, TO KEEP PACE WITH INFLATION AND INCREASE IN THE AVERAGE WAGES OF MANUFACTURING WORKERS.

SIR DAVID SAID THE SCHEME PROVIDED COMPENSATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT INJURY WHO WERE INJURED, DISABLED OR VIOLENCE AND TO THOSE

EX-GRATIA CRIMINAL INJURY COMPENSATION BOTH TO THOSE KILLED AS A RESULT OF A CRIME OF

ACCIDENTALLY

DISABLED INJURED,

OR IN THE EXECUTION

WHO WERE KILLED BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER USING A WEAPON OF HIS DUTY,

THE SCHEME, ADMINISTERED BY THE SOCIAL WELFARE

THE THROUGH

CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION BOARD AND INJURIES

WAS COMPENSATION BOARD, ENFORCEMENT

NON-MEANS PAYMENTS UNDER THE SCHEME WERE MADE FROM PUBLIC FUNDS.

DEPARTMENT

THE

LAW TESTED.

SIR DAVID SAID CASH COMPENSATION WAS PAID IN THE CASE OF OR INJURY OF VICTIMS AS A RESULT OF:

(A) EFFECTING AN ARREST OR ATTEMPTED ARREST OF AN

SUSPECTED OFFENDER; OR

(B) PREVENTING OR ATTEMPTING TO PREVENT

CRIME; OR

DEATH

OFFENDER OR

THE COMMISSION OF A

(C) GIVING HELP TO ANY POLICE OFFICER OR OTHER PERSON ENGAGED IN EITHER OF THE TWO ACTIVITIES IN (A) ABOVE.

"THE RATES OF PAYMENT IN THESE PAYABLE TO VICTIMS OF NATURAL DISASTERS

WHO WAS AND

(B)

THE

CASES ARE BASED ON THOSE UNDER

EMERGENCY

RELIEF

FUND.

THE AMOUNT