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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1990

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MR BARNES SAID: "THERE ARE MOREOVER ADEQUATE STAPP RESOURCES

UNAUTHORISED BUILDING WORKS, WHICH TO DEAL EXPEDITIOUSLY WITH ALSO KNOWN TO BE DANGEROUS.

PRIORITY TARGET ORDINANCE SOME RUSTY PROJECTING AND ARE ACTED ON THE BUILDINGS

"INDEED DANGER, KNOWN DANGER, IS THE HIGHEST OF THE UNAUTHORISED BUILDING WORKS SECTION OF THE BUILDINGS

SOME SUCH BUILDING WORKS, SUCH AS OFFICE. WINDOW CAGES ARE OBVIOUSLY BOTH ILLEGAL AND DANGEROUS

OR COMPLAINT UPON EITHER ON THE BASIS OF PUBLIC ORDINANCE OFFICE'S INITIATIVE.

OTHER IN

WORKS, HOWEVER,

WHICH MAY APPEAR

LIKE LEGAL

BUILDING WORKS, NEITHER THE DANGER NOR THE ILLEGALITY MAY BE APPARENT, AND THESE MAY BE AN EVEN GREATER THREAT TO LIFE AND LIMB."

ONE WOULD BE DEGREE OF

MR BARNES SAID COLLAPSES OF A SCALE SIMILAR TO THE RECENT AT TO KWA WAN WOULD CONTINUE TO BE RARE AND THE CASE, WHICH THE SUBJECT OF A CORONER'S INQUEST, HAD CAUSED A VERY HIGH PUBLIC CONCERN.

OF ENFORCEMENT HE SAID GOVERNMENT INSPECTIONS,

REPAIRS AND

ON A DAY TO ACTION AGAINST UBW'S

DAY BASIS ENSURED THAT THERE COLLAPSES

WOULD PAR WERE

THAN LESS BUILDING

THAT OTHERWISE AND SINCE THE TO KWA WAN. CASE, THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE BEEN GIVING

ATTENTION

CANOPIES

BE.

HAD

ΤΟ

WHICH

NEED ROUTINE

THE SAFETY

SPECIAL

RESPONSIBILITY FOR INSPECTION. BUT THE LEGAL AND MORAL OF A PRIVATE BUILDING WAS FIRMLY IN THE HANDS OF ITS OWNER.

OF THE MR BARNES SAID THERE WAS NO WAY IN WHICH THE RESOURCES

LEVEL REQUIRED BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE COULD BE BROUGHT UP TO THE TO RELIEVE OWNERS OF THIS RESPONSIBILITY OR THAT THEY SHOULD BE.

BUILDINGS AND BUILDING

MR BARNES ALSO POINTED OUT THAT THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS WOULD REPORT EARLY NEXT YEAR ON MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN SAFETY CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT.

THAT THE IN RESOURCES CAN A JOINT EFFORT BE SUCCESSFULLY

HE SAID: "I AM CONFIDENT THAT THE OPEN CONSULTATION BUILDINGS AND LANDS DEPARTMENT IS PRESENTLY CONDUCTING WILL RESULT POSITIVE RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO HOW PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BE POOLED MOST EFFECTIVELY, FOR IT IS ONLY WITH SUCH AND MUTUAL COOPERATION THAT THIS IMMENSE PROBLEM CAN TACKLED.

I HAVE SAID THAT THE

LIABILITY FOR

PARTY THE INJURY WHICH RESULTED IN AND LIABILITY MUST REMAIN A

"IT FOLLOWS FROM WHAT COMPENSATION TO INJURED PERSONS MUST IN MOST CASES LIE WITH THE RESPONS (BLE FOR THE NEGLIGENCE, IF ANY, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT JUDICIAL PROCESS,

OF NEGLIGENCE

MR BARNES ADDED,

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