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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1990

IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHER AIR DIOXIDE, IT MAY ALSO LEAD TO LUNG AND BRONCHITIS AND EMPHYSEMA.

POLLUTANTS SUCH AS RESPIRATORY DISEASES

SULPHUR SUCH

AS

THE SPOKESMAN NOTED THAT IN 1989, THERE WERE 115 SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTIONS AGAINST DARK SMOKE EMISSION OF WHICH 60 WERE REPEATED OFFENCES. THE HIGHEST REPETITION WAS 13 CONVICTED OFFENCES.

IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT MANY REPEATED OFFENDERS WERE ACTUALLY HABITUAL EMITTERS OF SMOKE, THE DETERRENT

THE EFFECT OF

PRESENT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE

PENALTY, A $5,000 FINE FOR INADEQUATE, HE SAID.

EACH

CONVICTION,

REGARDING THE STANDARD FOR SMOKE DETECTION, THE SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED THAT THE NEW REGULATIONS WOULD UPGRADE THE INTERPRETATION OF DARK SMOKE FROM SHADE 2 TO SHADE 1 ON THE RINGELMANN CHART,

UNDER THE NEW REGULATIONS, DARK SMOKE EMISSIONS MUST NOT BE AS MORE THAN DARK AS OR DARKER THAN SHADE 1 ON THE RINGELMANN CHART FOR SIX MINUTES IN ANY PERIOD OF FOUR HOURS, OR FOR MORE

THREE MINUTES CONTINUOUSLY AT ANY ONE TIME.

THAN

FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE NEW REGULATIONS COULD RESULT IN A FINE OF $20,000 ON FIRST CONVICTION AND $20,000 AND THREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT ON SECOND AND SUBSEQUENT CONVICTIONS.

WHERE THE OFFENCE IS A CONTINUING

ONE, A FINE OF $100 FOR EVERY ONE QUARTER OF AN HOUR MAY ALSO BE IMPOSED.

SMOKE

COMPLY WITH

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE NEW REGULATIONS WOULD BRING ABOUT A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN DARK

EMISSIONS FROM CHIMNEYS AND FURNACES WITH THE FULL CO-OPERATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR, WHICH WAS EXPECTED TO BE ABLE TO

THE TIGHTENING UP OF THE

CONTROL MEASURES.

CONSTRUCTION OF YUEN LONG SOUTHERN BYPASS PROPOSED

TO

YUEN

LONG-TUEN

CONSTRUCT THE YUEN LONG THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT PROPOSES TO

FROM CASTLE PEAK ROAD NEAR POK SOUTHERN BYPASS WHICH EXTENDS

LAM CORRIDOR NEAR MUN EASTERN

OI HAU

HOSPITAL TSUEN AND BYPASSES YUEN LONG TOWN TO THE SOUTH.

HIGHWAY

ENGINEER

(NEW

OF

MR KWONG THE NORTH

TERRITORIES}, THE REGIONAL HON-SANG, TODAY (FRIDAY) SAID THIS PROJECT FORMED PART WEST NEW TERRITORIES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME.

LONG AND WOULD THE PROPOSED BYPASS WOULD BE THREE KILOMETRES

EXISTING CASTLE PEAK ROAD HAVE TWO MAJOR INTERCHANGES - ONE AT THE

AU TAU BYPASS, AND THE NEAR POK OI HOSPITAL TO CONNECT THE FUTURE

CONNECTED TO OTHER TO THE NORTH OF KONG TAU SAN TSUEN WHICH WOULD BE THE FUTURE ROUTE 3 FROM TING KAU/TSING YI.

/MR KWONG