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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1991

GOVERNMENT'S ACTIVITIES CASES ENHANCE ITS

THE POINT HAS ALSO BEEN MADE THAT THE DO NOT ONLY RESTRICT THE USE OF LAND BUT IN OTHER VALUR BY IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE AND THROUGH PLANNING DECISIONS.

BY

IF A MORE EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF COMPENSATION IS TO BE INTRODUCED,

SYSTEM IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THERE SHOULD BE A COUNTER-BALANCING WHICH

SHOULD PAY A THOSE WHOSE

VALUES ARE INCREASED BETTERMENT LEVY TO THE GOVERNMENT, THIS WOULD OFFSET THE COMPENSATION PAYMENTS WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE FALL ON THE GENERAL TAXPAYERS.

PROPERTY

THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND BARNES, IN ANNOUNCING LAST MONTH THAT CONSULTATION ON THE NEW NEEDED AN INDEPENDENT

PLANNING COMMITTEE

LANDS, MR GRAHAM THERE WOULD BR A PERIOD OF

THAT BILL, EXPLAINED

THIS ISSUE

WOULD WHOSE RECOMMENDATIONS

CONSIDERED

AND

INCORPORATED

IN

THE

OVERALL

PROPOSAL

FOR

A

BE NEW

PLANNING ORDINANCE NEXT YEAR.

FOR HOUSING HAS RETURNED TASK. BEFORE BECOMING

MR TODD WHO WAS FORMERLY SECRETARY FROM RETIREMENT IN AUSTRIA FOR THIS SIX-MONTH

WAS DIRECTOR OF LANDS AND SECRETARY FOR HOUSING, HE SECRETARY BOTH FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND, IN THE LATE NEW TERRITORIES.

ALSO DEPUTY 1970'S, FOR THE

TRIBUNAL.

THE VICE-CHAIRMAN IS H.H. JUDGE CRUDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE

LANDS

MR

GERRY

RECENTLY RETIRED PROFESSOR

OF ANTHONY WALKER OF UNIVERSITY

HONG KONG (HRU); THE LAW

OF A SENIOR LECTURER IN

FACULTY PUBLIC CERTIFIED

ACCOUNTANT; MR RONNY

FORSGATE,

THE

MR

THE

WONG

OTHER MEMBERS INCLUDE THE URBAN CHAIRMAN OF

COUNCIL; DEPARTMENT OF SURVEYING IN THE ALBERT CHEN HUNG-YER, HKU: MR SELWYN MAR, A FOOK-HUM, QUEEN'S COUNSEL; AND MR PATRICK WU PO-KONG, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF WING LUNG BANK.

QUESTIONS RAISED THE PANEL OF EXPERT ADVISERS WILL RESPOND TO

IT IS BY THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE AND ADVISE ON MATTERS REFERRED TO IT.

SUBMISSIONS TO THE ALSO EXPECTED THAT THE MEMBERS WILL MAKE WRITTEN COMMITTEE WHICH WILL THEN DISCUSS THEM WITH THE PANEL.

"DISCUSSIONS

WITH

THE PANEL WOULD ONLY CONSULTATION PROCESS, MR TODD EXPLAINED.

BE PART

OF THE

"THE

COMMITTER'S

RECOMMENDATIONS

AND ON COMPENSATION SOCIETY AND THE GENERAL SUBMISSIONS FROM

BETTERMENT WILL AFFECT MANY SBUTORS OF THE PUBLIC AND I HOPE THE COMMITTEE WILL ALSO RECEIVE INTERESTED GROUPS AND FROM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.'

NOTING THAT THE CONSULTATIVE

**

זיו'

PERIOD FOR THE WHOLE EXERCISE THE COMMITTEE

WILL NEED ΤΟ PUT WILL END ON NOVEMBER 30, AND THAT

THE EXECUTIVE FORWARD ITS RECOMMENDATIONS IN TIME FOR SUBMISSION COUNCIL, EARLY NEXT YEAR, MR TODD URGED THOSE WHO WISH TO APPROACH COMMITTEE TO DO SO BARLY.

"THERE WILL THEN RE TIME FOR THE COMMITTEE TO MRET AND ANY PROBLEMS WITH THOSE WHO HAVE SUBMITTED PROPOSALS BEFORE UP ITS RECOMMENDATIONS," HÈ ADDED.

THE

DISCUSS

IT

DRAWS

/ANYONE WISHING