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WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1991

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REHOUSING JULD BE OFFERED WHERE APPROPRIATE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SECRETARY THE LDC'S ELIC LITY CRITERIA AND TERMS AS AGREED BY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS.

FLOOR OWNER HAD 187-193 QUEEN'S AN AGREED

REFERRING TO A CASE WHICH INVOLVED PREMISES ON THE THIRD OF 189 QUEEN'S ROAD EAST, MR BARNES POINTED OUT THAT THE AGREED TO SURRENDER THE PREMISES AND SOME OTHERS AT ROAD TO THE GOVERNMENT WITH VACANT POSSESSION AS PART OF LAND EXCHANGE TO THE GOVERNMENT.

"NO RESUMPTION IS INVOLVED AND HENCE THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TENANTS OF THESE PREMISES.

"ANY ARRANGEMENTS FOR COMPENSATION ARE TENANTS AND THE PRESENT OWNER OF THE PREMISES,

T

GOVERNMENT HAS NO

MATTERS BETWEEN THE HE SAID.

HE ADDED THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE OWNER AND TENANTS OF LANDLORD AND TENANT THE CASE WAS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE (CONSOLIDATION) ORDINANCE AND NORMAL COMMERCIAL PRACTICE, OF WHICH THE GOVERNMENT HAD LITTLE CAUSE TO INTERVENE.

GOVT SETS EXAMPLE TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS

BY IMPOSING A MORATORIUM

*

* *

A MORATORIUM

ON

FEE

REVISIONS

SET BY THE TO TAKE STEPS TO

IT IS CLEAR THAT BY IMPOSING UNTIL THE END OF FEBRUARY 1992, A CLEAR EXAMPLE HAS BEEN GOVERNMENT TO BOTH THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS CURB INFLATIONARY EXPECTATIONS.

JACOBS, SAID THIS

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON SIR PIERS WHEN GIVING A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON TAI CHIN-WAH.

WAS HE

GRATIFIED TO

SEE

IN THAT CONNECTION, SIR PIERS SAID THAT THE LEAD HAD ALREADY GAINED THE SUPPORT OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.

WHILE IT WAS THE GOVERNMENT'S

ANNOUNCED ON

FEE REVISIONS

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY SAID

HE ANNUALLY, NORMAL POLICY TO REVISE FEES AND CHARGES MAY 29 THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD PLACE A MORATORIUM ON UNTIL THE END OF FEBRUARY NEXT YEAR.

THAT

THE

RISE IN THE

RATE

"AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN THAT WAS FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE

PERCEPTION LEAD THUS ALTERING THE INFLATION WAS INEXORABLE," HE SAID.

A

OF

SO FAR, THE PROPOSED REVISION OF 2,249 BEEN HELD UP, SIR PIERS NOTED.

FEES AND CHARGES HAD

"WHILE THE INFLATIONARY IMPACT OF THE ORIGINAL PROPOSALS NOT HAVE BEEN GREAT EVEN IF THEY HAD GONE AHEAD, IT IS CLEAR

HAS

SET BEEN IMPOSING THE MORATORIUM A CLEAR EXAMPLE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS," SIR PIERS SAID.

WOULD THAT BY

то

BOTH

THE

/SIR PIERS

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