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WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1990

"OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO DETAIN AS FEW CHILDREN AS POSSIBLE.

"BUT IN PRACTICE, MANY MOTHERS WISH TO KEEP THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN WITH THEM, PARTICULARLY IN THE CASE OF VERY YOUNG INFANTS," MR ASPREY ADDED.

HE NOTED THAT MOTHERS WHO HAD BEEN IMMIGRANTS WERE ANOTHER MATTER.

ARRESTED AS ILLEGAL

"THEY ARE NOT INNOCENT PARTIES. THEY HAVE DELIBERATELY BROKEN THE LAW, EVADED OUR IMMIGRATION CONTROLS AND MAY HAVE LIVED ILLEGALLY IN HONG KONG FOR A SUBSTANTIAL PERIOD OF TIME, SOMETIMES MANY YEARS.

"IF RELEASED, THEY MAY WELL SEEK TO GO INTO HIDING AGAIN. THEY THEREFORE USUALLY BE DETAINED PENDING REPATRIATION,

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HE

WILL

EXPLAINED.

11 SETS OF REGULATIONS GOVERN PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

SAFETY AND HEALTH THERE ARE AT PRESENT 11 SETS OF INDUSTRIAL

PROTECTIVE REGULATIONS THAT SPECIFY THE PROVISION AND USE OF PERSONAL

AND MANPOWER, THE HON K.Y. EQUIPMENT, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION YEUNG, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

TAM YIU-CHUNG,

MR

YEUNG INDUSTRIAL

IN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON SAID THESE REGULATIONS COVERED ALL AREAS OF WORK WHERE THE PROCESSES INVOLVED REQUIRED THE USE OF SUITABLE PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT.

"TO THIS EXTENT IT CANNOT BE SAID THAT THE RANGE OF SAFETY LEGISLATION IS INADEQUATE," HE SAID.

ON MR TAM'S QUESTION ABOUT THE GUIDELINES FOR SAFETY STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS, MR YEUNG SAID THE UNITED KINGDOM APPROACH IN DOWN BROAD PRINCIPLES, THERE WERE CODES THE SAFE PROCEDURES, EQUIPMENT STANDARDS AND THE RANGE VARIATIONS.

INDUSTRIAL

THE EQUIPMENT'S KONG FOLLOWED

THAT WHILE SAFETY LEGISLATION LAID OF PRACTICE WHICH OUTLINED OF ACCEPTABLE

PRACTICE HAD

IN THE AREA OF PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, 19 CODES OF ALREADY BEEN INTRODUCED AND MORE WERE BEING DEVELOPED, HE SAID.

WHICH

MR YEUNG SAID ELABORATING ON THE ADEQUACY OF THE PROTECTION,

WITH DEALT REGULATIONS,

HIGH RISK FIVE OF THE 11 SETS OF

TO BE APPROVED OPERATIONS, REQUIRED THE PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT EITHER

SPECIFICATIONS TO MEET THE

LAID BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR LABOUR OR DOWN IN THE REGULATIONS OR CODES OF PRACTICE.

"THE

REMAINING

SIX SETS

BE

OF REGULATIONS

TO SUITABLE

THE

SPECIFY THAT WORK

OR

THE ACTIVITY

PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT SHOULD

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INVOLVED, HE ADDED.

/"HOWEVER, HE

: