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HE ALSO SAID THAT SINCE 1979, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY
THE PROGRAMME IS ESTATES. REWIRING ALL ITS PRE-1973 COMPLETION, COVERING 157,000 FLATS IN 40 ESTATES.
HAD BEEN NEARING
BUILDINGS COMPLETED SINCE THERE HAD BEEN MORE INCIDENTS IN
USE INCREASED
OF HIGH CURRENT 1973,
AS LARGELY
A RESULT OF AN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES, ESPECIALLY AIR-CONDITIONERS.
120 BUILDINGS WITH UNDER ITS CURRENT PROGRAMME, A TOTAL OF
STANDARDS INADEQUATE POWER LOADING WILL BE BROUGHT UP TO PRESENT-DAY OVER THE NEXT SIX YEARS, HE SAID.
FAILURES OR JUNE
MR BARNES SAID A TOTAL 1,287 INCIDENTS OF POWER INTERRUPTIONS IN PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATES HAD TAKEN PLACE BETWEEN
ONE CASE OF OVERLOADING AND AUGUST THIS YEAR AND OF THESE, ONLY RESULTED IN A MINOR EXPLOSION IN A METER ROOM.
SERIOUSNESS
OF
"IT NORMALLY TOOK ABOUT TWO HOURS TO RESUME ELECTRICITY SUPPLY, BUT OF COURSE, THE TIME IN EACH CASE DEPENDED ON ITS EACH CASE," HE SAID.
DRAFT GUESTHOUSE LICENSING LAW COMPLETED: SHA
*
THE DRAFT LEGISLATION
TO LICENSE
GUESTHOUSES HAS
BEEN
WILL
COMPLETED AND, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, BE INTRODUCED INTO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SHORTLY.
HO-YIN IN
THE
REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON KINGSLEY SIT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY), THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, ENABLING LEGISLATION WAS THE HON PETER TSAO, ALSO SAID ALTHOUGH THE
YET TO BE IN PLACE, THE LICENSING AUTHORITY HAD BEEN SET UP.
FIRST
DEPARTMENT AND THE FIRE
"THE
ΤΟ CNTA
SECONDED
OCTOBER 1, 1990, TO WORK
LANDS
WERE
·
ON
AND THEM ADMINISTRATION)
ARRANGEMENTS FOR ISSUING
LICENCES, TO RENDER SAFE THOSE ESTABLISHMENTS WHICH
RISKS TO LIFE AND LIMB,'
"
POSE PARTICULAR
BATCH OF
STAFF
(CITY
FROM DEPARTMENT, SERVICES
AND NEW TERRITORIES OUT OPERATIONAL
THE
BUILDINGS SIX OF
MR TSAO SAID.
MEASURES
WHEN
WILL
THE
BE INCORPORATED
SCHEME BECOMES LICENSING
INTO MORE FULLY
WOULD BE IN POST, SO FULL ACTION ONCE THE
"THESE INTERIM
PERMANENT
ARRANGEMENTS OPERATIONAL, HE ADDED.
++
HE ASSURED THE COUNCIL THAT ALL STAFF THAT THE LICENSING AUTHORITY COULD SWING INTO LEGISLATION WAS ENACTED AND BROUGHT INTO OPERATION.
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