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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1991

MORE OUTLETS NEEDED FOR POLITICAL FUND RAISING

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INEVITABLE

AND ACCEPTABLE AFFAIRS,

RAISING POLITICAL FUND

IS A LEGITIMATE AND KONG'S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT CONSEQUENCE OF HONG OUTLETS NEED TO BE PROVIDED FOR THEM, THE SECRETARY FOR HOME THE HON PETER TSAO, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

WAS

OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE SUMMARY BILL 1991. MR TSAO SAID AT PRESENT THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE

OF MONEY IN THE LAWFUL AUTHORITY FOR ISSUING PERMITS FOR COLLECTION PUBLIC PLACES, BUT HE NORMALLY ONLY ISSUED PERMITS FOR COLLECTIONS FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

YEARS.

THIS ARRANGEMENT, HE SAID, HAD WORKED

WELL FOR A NUMBER OF

H

PARTICULARLY THE

OF

REPRESENTATIVE DIRECT ELECTION TO THE CHANGE, MR TSAO

HOWEVER, DEVELOPMENTS IN OUR SYSTEM

OF ADVENT GOVERNMENT, LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THE NEED FOR

SAID.

IN THIS CONNECTION, HE SAID THE PROVIDE A

FOR THE NEW ARRANGEMENT COLLECTION OF MONEY IN PUBLIC PLACES.

OBJECT OF

OF ISSUE

"

THE BILL WAS TO PERMITS FOR THE.

WELFARE UNDER THE PROPOSED ARRANGEMENT, THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL

FOR CHARITABLE WOULD CONTINUE TO ISSUE PERMITS FOR SUCH COLLECTIONS PURPOSES WHILE THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS WOULD ISSUE PERMITS COLLECTIONS FOR "ANY OTHER PURPOSES".

NOTING THAT A

WIDE VARIETY OF

THE

OUTLETS

FOR

FOR

FUND

POLITICAL

WERE FREE TO AND THE NEVERTHELESS

RAISING ALREADY EXISTED THESE GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS RAISE FUNDS IN PRIVATELY OWNED PREMISES AND THROUGH THE MAIL

SAID

ADMINISTRATION

PRINTED MEDIA, MR

TSAO

THE

WAS

MINDFUL OF THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL OUTLETS IN SUITABLE PUBLIC PLACES.

TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE CROWDED "IN SO DOING, HOWEVER, WE MUST

AND THE NEED ΤΟ AVOID CONDITIONS OF OUR STREETS AND THOROUGHFARES, AND COMPETITION WITH CHARITABLE FUND RAISING WHICH IS HIGHLY DEPENDENT INCOME FROM STREET COLLECTION.

ON

IN OUR VIEW IS "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, THE BEST ARRANGEMENT

IN CONFINED PUBLIC PLACES FOR POLITICAL FUND RAISING TO BE ALLOWED

ATTENDANCE SUCH AS STADIA, CIVIC CENTRES, AND COMMUNITY CENTRES WHERE

HE SAID. WOULD NOT BE INCIDENTAL BUT WOULD BE FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE,

"AMONG OTHER

THINGS,

THE GUIDELINES WISH TO BE

WHICH IN WAYS

NORMALLY THE SECRETARY WILL

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A SET OF GUIDELINES HAD ALREADY BEEN PREPARED, MR TSAO SAID.

SET

THAT OUT, FIRST, SATISFIED THAT THE FUNDS

TO DIRECTLY

THE WILL RAISED

BE USED

CONTRIBUTE

AND SECONDLY + DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG,

PLACES, THAT THE FUND RAISING ACTIVITIES ARE TO BE HELD IN CONFINED HE SAID.

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/MR TSAO