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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1990

HOWEVER,

MRS WONG POINTED OUT THAT,

PAST EXPERIENCE HAD INDICATED THAT EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE OR PRINCIPAL-AGENT RELATIONSHIPS WERE THE DIFFICULT TO ESTABLISH IN COURT AND, ON A NUMBER OF OCCASIONS,

SUCCESSFULLY DENYING LICENCE HOLDER WAS ABLE TO AVOID CONVICTION BY

THE THAT THE OPERATOR OF AN IRRADIATING APPARATUS WHO HAD COMMITTED OFFENCE WAS HIS EMPLOYEE OR GENT.

THIS REMEDY

DEFECT, MRS WONG SAID CLAUSE

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RE-ENACTED SECTION 22 TO REMOVE THE REFERENCE TO EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS AND TO MAKE OF THE A LICENCE HOLDER LIABLE FOR AN OFFENCE COMMITTED IN RESPECT LICENSED RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES OR IRRADIATING APPARATUS UNLESS

WITHOUT HIS WAS COMMITTED

KNOWLEDGE AND PROVED THAT THE OFFENCE THAT HE HAD EXERCISED ALL DUE DILIGENCE TO PREVENT THE COMMISSION THE OFFENCE.

OF

A FIVEFOLD UNDER THE CAME

SHE SAID THE BILL ALSO SOUGHT то INTRODUCE INCREASE IN THE LEVEL OF FINES FOR VARIOUS OFFENCES ORDINANCE. THESE FINES HAD NOT BEEN REVISED SINCE THE ORDINANCE INTO FORCE.

LOW LEVEL, IT "ALTHOUGH THE NUMBER OF OFFENCES HAS BEEN AT A

THEIR IS CONSIDERED NECESSARY TO INCREASE THE FINES SO AS TO MAINTAIN

UNDER DETERRENT EFFECT AND BRING THEM INTO LINE WITH SIMILAR OFFENCES OTHER LEGISLATION, SUCH AS THE DANGEROUS GOODS ORDINANCE, SAID.

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MRS WONG

BILL FOR FUNDING EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION ASSISTANCE SCHEME

*

A BILL INTENDED TO IMPOSE A LEVY ON THE PREMIA COMPENSATION INSURANCE POLICIES, TO FUND

INTO

FOR EMPLOYEES' AN EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION COUNCIL THE LEGISLATIVE

ASSISTANCE SCHEME, TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

WAS

INTRODUCED

MOVING

SECOND THE

THE

COMPENSATION EMPLOYEES'

MANPOWER, INSURANCE LEVIES BILL 1990, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND

AT

INSURERS WERE THE HON

EXPLAINED THAT K.Y. YEUNG,

EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION INSURANCE COLLECTING A ONE PER CENT LEVY ON

SAFETY OCCUPATIONAL

HEALTH PREMIA TO MEET THE EXPENSES OF COUNCIL.

READING OF THE

PRESENT

AND

"GIVEN

THE IMMINENT

INTRODUCTION

OF

THE

EMPLOYEES'

BY EXECUTIVE

BEING DRAFTED, AN

COMPENSATION ASSISTANCE SCHEME, WHICH HAS BEEN ENDORSED COUNCIL AND IS THE SUBJECT OF A SEPARATE BILL NOW ADDITIONAL LEVY OF ONE PER CENT WILL BE REQUIRED.

"INSTEAD OF ASKING INSURERS TO COLLECT TWO

THE BILL BEFORE

US

LEVIES AND REMIT

FOR PROVIDES

A

AND

THEM TO TWO DIFFERENT BODIES, COMBINED LEVY OF TWO PER CENT, AND FOR THE CREATION OF AN EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION INSURANCE LEVIES MANAGEMENT BOARD FOR THE COLLECTION DISTRIBUTION OF THE COMBINED LEVY,"

HE SAID.

/MR YEUNG