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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1990

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PEOPLE DETAINED OVERSEAS MAY SEEK HELP FROM BRITISH CONSULAR

LOCAL

A HONG KONG RESIDENT WHO IS DETAINED OVERSEAS CAN REQUEST

TO AUTHORITIES

INFORM A BRITISH CONSULAR OFFICER OF

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

THE

HIS TOLD

REPLYING A QUESTION FROM THE SAID THE CONSULAR OFFICER DEPARTMENT,

WHICH WOULD

NOTIFY

HON LEONG CHE-HUNG, MR WOULD INFORM THE HONG KONG IN TURN

THE NEXT-OF-KIN

ASPREY IMMIGRATION

IF

THE

DETAINEE SO REQUESTED.

"THE CONSULAR OFFICER WILL ALSO GIVE A PERSON DETAINED ADVICE ON HIS RIGHTS AND THE AVAILABILITY OF LEGAL AID," HE SAID.

WAS AS REGARDS THE CRITERIA BY WHICH PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE

NATIONALS WERK RENDERED TO SUCH PERSONS, MR ASPREY SAID ONLY BRITISH ENTITLED TO BRITISH CONSULAR PROTECTION.

"HOWEVER, GIVEN THE GENERAL

RESPONSIBILITY OF HER

MAJESTY'S INSTRUCTED HONG KONG

HI HE ADDED.

GOVERNMENT FOR HONG KONG, BRITISH CONSULAR POSTS HAVE BEEN

MUCH

THEY TO DO AS

AS

CAN то

ΤΟ PROVIDE ASSISTANCE CERTIFICATE OF IDENTITY HOLDERS WHO ARE IN TROUBLE,

JORDAN VALLEY LANDFILL TO BE CLOSED AT END OF THIS MONTH

HON THAT

ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, THE THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, GRAHAM BARNES TODAY (WEDNESDAY) INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF THIS MONTH IN THE JORDAN VALLEY LANDFILL WOULD CLOSE BY THE END ACCORDANCE WITH ASSURANCES GIVEN BY THE GOVERNMENT.

MR

COMPLETION WHICH WAS BE FULLY

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON MRS ELSIE TU, BARNES SAID THE CLOSURE OF THE LANDFILL WAS IN VIEW OF THE

KOWLOON

TRANSFER OF THE

BAY REFUSE

STATION (KBRTS), CURRENTLY UNDERGOING COMMISSIONING TRIALS AND WOULD SHORTLY OPERATIONAL.

OF THE LANDFILL, MR BARNES ALSO NOTED THAT AFTER THE CLOSURE

PLAN FOR IT WOULD REMAIN UNTIL THE END OF THIS YEAR IN A CONTINGENCY

WAS A MAJOR BREAKDOWN OR THE OPERATION OF THE KBRTS IN CASE THERE STOPPAGE OF THE STATION.

HE DISCLOSED THAT

THE

CONTINGENCY PLAN,

WHICH WAS DEVISED

BY THE GOVERNMENT AND ENDORSED BY THE URBAN COUNCIL, WAS IN TWO PARTS.

END OF WHEN A SECOND

THE FIRST COVERED THE PERIOD FROM APRIL 1990 UNTIL THE 1990, AND THE SECOND FROM THE END OF 1990 UNTIL 1995, REFUSE TRANSFER STATION SHOULD BE COMMISSIONED IN WEST KOWLOON.

"THE OPTION