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SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1991

AS

THE

AS

THE CASE IN OCTOBER 1989, INITIATED BY CCB, WAS ESTABLISHED

THE EVIDENCE ACCEPTED JUDGE THE TEST CASE IN HONG PRESENTED TO THE COURT.

KONG

IN MAY ORDINANCE

THE TEST CASE INVOLVED A 30-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO, HAVING CREDIT LIMIT SPENT OVER $540,000 BETWEEN APRIL AND

(D) OF THE THEFT WAS CHARGED UNDER SECTION 18 SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IMPRISONMENT.

A $3,000 НЕ 1987.

AND WAS

PREVIOUSLY, THE CASE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT AT A CIVIL COURT.

COULD

1TS LAWYER "THE CIVIL COURT COULD NOT HELP A BANK EVEN THOUGH

ON CREDIT CARD HOLDERS OVERSPENDING SUE THE SUCCESSFULLY

MR LEE SAID.

GROUNDS OF CIVIL LIABILITY,

SIGNIFICANT ASSETS "THESE PEOPLE DID NOT HAVE COULD NOT GET MUCH BENEFIT FROM A COURT ORDER FOR THE THE DEFENDANTS' ASSETS.

THE LATEST CASE

INVOLVED A SALESMAN

CARDS WITH ONLY $6,000 CREDIT CEILING ON EACH.

AND THE BANK LIQUIDATION

OF

POSSESSING

FOUR CREDIT

HE HE WAS SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS IMPRISONMENT LAST DECEMBER AS

TAIWAN AND JAPAN WITHIN HAD INCURRED OVER $600,000 DEBTS IN CHINA, TEN DAYS.

HARSH MR LEE BELIEVES IMPRISONMENT IS CREDIT CARD HOLDERS NOT TO OVERSPEND.

ΤΟ ENOUGH

WARN OTHER

COMMIT

FOUND FEWER

"OTHER CREDIT CARD HOLDERS WILL THINK TWICE BEFORE THEY

HAS RECENTLY CRIME. THE BANKING OVERSPENDING CASES.

THE

"

COMMUNITY

ANOTHER CHANCE TO CHOOSE PRIMARY 1 PLACE

OR

A

SAID

PARENTS WILL HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE OF CHOOSING A GOVERNMENT AIDED PRIMARY SCHOOL FOR THEIR CHILDREN WHO HAVE NOT BEEN ALLOCATED PRIMARY 1 DISCRETIONARY PLACE, AN EDUCATION DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY (SUNDAY).

NEAR

THE PUBLIC-SECTOR THESE CHILDREN WILL BE ALLOCATED A PLACE IN SCHOOLS, THROUGH THE CENTRAL ALLOCATION SYSTEM, WHICH WILL BE AS TO THEIR HOMES AS POSSIBLE, HE SAID.

ADMISSION

UNIT

то THESE

GO

THE ΤΟ

1

PARENTS BY

PRIMARY LETTERS HAVE BEEN SENT

то THEM

SPECIFIED REQUESTED

FORM DISTRIBUTION-COLLECTION CENTRES TO COLLECT A "CHOICE OF SCHOOLS"

IN THEIR OWN AND A LIST OF ALL GOVERNMENT AND AIDED PRIMARY SCHOOLS

FROM 9.30 AM HOME DISTRICT FROM MARCH 9 TO 11 (SATURDAY TO MONDAY), TO 12.30 PM AND FROM 1.30 PM TO 4.30 PM.

/ALL THE