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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1991

ON THE PROVISION OF THE NOISE CONTROL ORDINANCE NEIGHBOURHOOD NOISE, 32 PERSONS WERE PROSECUTED BY THE CAUSING EXCESSIVE NOISE FROM DOMESTIC PLACES AT NIGHT RANGING FROM $150 TO $500.

FOR

RELATING TO

POLICK WITH PINES

$800, FOR

ONE PERSON WAS PROSECUTED BY THE POLICE AND FINED CARRYING OUT CONSTRUCTION WORK IN A CONSTRUCTION SITE WITHOUT A PERMIT.

20,

AN EPD SPOKESMAN SAID THE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY IN CASE 19, 21, 22 WAS FINED A TOTAL OF $200,000 FOR COMMITTING FOUR OFFENCES UNDER THE NOISE CONTROL ORDINANCE, THAT IS, CARRYING OUT CONSTRUCTION WORK USING POWERED MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS SPECIFIED IN A CONSTRUCTION NOISE PERMIT.

THE SPOKESMAN SAID ON WATER POLLUTION CONTROL, THE DEPARTMENT HAD IMPLEMENTED AN ACTION PLAN IN TOLO AND FACTORIES WHICH DISCHARGE HEAVY METAL WERE PUT UNDER CLOSE SURVEILLANCE. ROUND-THE-CLOCK MONITORING OF THE EFFLUENTS FROM THE MAJOR PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND ELECTROPLATING FACTORIES HAD BEEN CARRIED OUT TO DETECT ANY ILLEGAL DISCHARGE OF CHEMICALS.

THIS

SERIES OF ACTION HAS RESULTED IN TWO SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION CASES ON HEAVY METAL DISCHARGES. THIS IS SHOWN IN CASE 46 AND 47.

THE

ALSO, CASE 41 WAS THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL CASE WHICH INVOLVED "LOADING" OF EXCAVATED MATERIAL ONTO A BARGE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DUMPING AT SEA WITHOUT A LICENCE.

FAR EAST INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED CEASES WRITING INSURANCE BUSINESS

PURSUANT TO SECTION 228A OF THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE, THE DIRECTORS OF THE FAR EAST INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED HAVE MADE A STATUTORY DECLARATION TO THE EFFECT THAT THE COMPANY CANNOT BY REASON OF ITS LIABILITIES CONTINUE ITS BUSINESS AND THAT IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE COMPANY BE WOUND UP, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE SAID TODAY (TUESDAY),

AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE INSURANCE AUTHORITY, MR DAVID HAGUE AND MR LO YIN-YEUNG OF PRICE WATERHOUSE HAVE BEEN APPOINTED AS PROVISIONAL LIQUIDATORS OF THE COMPANY, HE SAID.

"THE COMPANY HAS, SINCR NOVEMBER 1990, CEASED WRITING INSURANCE BUSINESS AND COMMENCED A RUN-OFF OF ITS OUTSTANDING LIABILITIES, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

THE COMPANY HAS BEEN REQUIRED BY THE INSURANCE AUTHORITY, THROUGH THE POWERS AVAILABLE TO HIM UNDER SECTION 35 OF THE INSURANCE COMPANIES ORDINANCE, TO TERMINATE ALL POLICIES UNDERWRITTEN BY IT.

/""THE POLICY

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