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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1991

TO ENSURE THAT THE EXISTING RULES FELL WITHIN SUCH MACLEOD SAID CLAUSE 8 SOUGHT TO PROVIDE THAT THE RULES HAD UNDER THE HKAB ORDINANCE AS AMENDED BY THE BILL.

POWERS,

MR

BEEN MADE

AMENDMENTS

NEW

THE THE

THE

"IN ADDITION, THE OPPORTUNITY IS TAKEN TO INTRODUCE TO EMPOWER THE HKAB COMMITTEE TO GIVE NOTIFICATIONS TO MEMBERS OF REINSTATE REFERENCES TO OR AMENDING RULES BY FACSIMILE, AND TO TERMS 'UNINCORPORATED BANKS' AND 'PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS' IN DELETED WHEN SCHEDULE TO THE ORDINANCE WHICH WERE INADVERTENTLY BANKING (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3) ORDINANCE 1990 WAS ENACTED.

"THE PROPOSALS IN THIS BILL ARE

"

BY SUPPORTED

THE HONG

KONG

ASSOCIATION OF BANKS, HE ADDED.

DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.

BILL A POSITIVE AND PRACTICAL LEGAL WELFARE MEASURE

THE OFFICIAL SOLICITOR BILL 1991 WAS COMMENDED AS A AND PRACTICAL LEGAL WELFARE MEASURE BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

POSITIVE

IN THE

MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE BILL, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MR JEREMY MATHEWS, SAID IT RATIONALISED THE PRESENT ARRANGEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OFFICE OF OFFICIAL SOLICITOR.

OFFICE SHEI

F

THE PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE AND PUBLIC BENEFIT OF FXPLAINING

OFFICIAL SOLICITOR, MR MATHEWS SAID: "ESSENTIALLY AN OFFICER

OF THE COURT AVAILABLE, CIRCUMSTANUPS, TO VT FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT ACT FOR OF SOME DEGAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY.

THE

IF IN APPROPRIATE THEMSELVES BECAUSE

COR

• IN VOL LASE

CHILDREN THE

OF PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION OPEN TAL SOLTO ETOR ACTS FOR THESE WIDO HAVE NO OIL TO REPRESENT THEM IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, FOR EXAMPLE THE CHILD WHO HAS LOST BOTH PARENTS AN ACCIDENT.

IN

SITUATIONS

**IN THE CASE OF MENTAL PATIENTS THP OFFICIAL SOLICITOR WILL REIFERENT THEIR INTERESTS IN A VARIETY OF, OFTEN COMPLEX, INVOLA ING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THPUR LEGAL AFFAIRS."

AT PRESENT, THE REGISTRAR GEFERAL WAS PUPOKERED UNDER SECTION 3 AND THE SECOND SCHEDA E TO, THE PFGISTRAR GENERAL. (ESTABLISHMENT)

TO EXERCISE THE POWERS AND PERFORM THE DPLIES CONFERRED DION THR HOLDER OF THE OFFICE OP OFICIAL SOLI ITOR

ORDINANCE

OR

MR MATHEWS POINTED OUT THAT THE DUTIES OF OFFICIAL SOLICITOR DID NOT BLEND READILY WITH THE OTHER LEGAL AND COMMERCIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE

GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT REGISTRAR GOVERNMENT TO REVIEW THE CURRENT ARRANGEMENTS.

AND

THIS

HAD

PROMPTED THE

/"THAT REVIEN

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