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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1990

MR LEUNG SAID THE BILL

FOR

METHOD

ALSO EMPOWERED THE COMMISSIONER TRANSPORT TO CALCULATE DRIVING-OFFENCE POINTS ACCORDING TO THE USED BY MAGISTRATES.

"WHEN A HE SAID:

PERSON HAS

15 INCURRED DRIVING-OFFENCE POINTS, THE COMMISSIONER FOR TRANSPORT MUST A MAGISTRATE FOR A SUMMONS.

"THE PRESENT

OR MORE APPLY TO

LEGISLATION PROVIDES THAT WHERE TWO OR MORE ATTRACTING OFFENCES HAVE ARISEN OUT OF THE SAME ACT, ONLY THE OFFENCE

BE SHOULD OF POINTS

COUNTED,

WHERE AND THE HIGHEST NUMBER ATTRACT THE SAME NUMBER OF POINTS, ONLY ONE OF THE OFFENCES SHOULD COUNTED.

THEY BE

EMPOWERED ΤΟ USE

AND

帥

HOWEVER, THE COMMISSIONER IS NOT AT PRESENT THIS METHOD OF CALCULATION AND MUST RECORD ALL MULTIPLE OFFENCES

UNNECESSARY WORK, MR REFER CASES TO A MAGISTRATE, THEREBY CREATING LEUNG SAID.

BROUGHT ABOUT FIXED PENALTY

MR LEUNG SAID ANOTHER IMPROVEMENT THAT THE BILL TO A WAS TO CLARIFY THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN LIABILITY AROSE, CEASED, OR REVIVED. NO POLICY CHANGES WERE INVOLVED.

THE DEBATE ON THE MOTION OF THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.

FLEXI-STAFF DEPLOYMENT TO COPE WITH INFLUX OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC

*

OF PEAK TO COPE WITH THE VOLUME OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC AT TIMES DEMAND AT THE LO WU TERMINAL, THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT DEPLOYS AS POSSIBLE IN ADDITIONAL STAFF TO MAN AS MANY IMMIGRATION COUNTERS THE DIRECTION WHERE DEMAND IS HIGHEST.

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON ALISTAIR ASPREY, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MR HO

ASPREY SAID CLEARANCE OF ALL

REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON EDWARD THE GOVERNMENT IS AIMING AT COMPLETING IMMIGRATION PASSENGERS WITHIN A MAXIMUM OF 30 MINUTES.

"THIS STANDARD IS GENERALLY ACHIEVED, INCLUDING AT

TERMINAL.

THE LO WU

PARTICULARLY

THAN

"HOWEVER, DURING PEAK PERIOD AND FESTIVE PERIODS, AT THE LUNAR NEW YEAR, SOME PASSENGERS MAY HAVE TO WAIT FOR MORE 30 MINUTES, HE SAID.

FLOW

THAN

IN

DAILY AVERAGE PASSENGER MR ASPREY POINTED OUT THAT THE THROUGH LO WU IN 1990 IS 73,000, WHICH IS 2,000 LESS PER DAY 1988.

/HOWEVER, HE