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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1991

WORKING GROUP ON RETIREMENT PROTECTION SET UP

* * * * *

IN RESPONSE TO PRESS ENQUIRIES, A (SATURDAY) CONFIRMED THAT RETIREMENT PROTECTION

GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY AN INTER-DEPARTMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON HAS BEEN SET UP UNDER THE

CHAIRMANSHIP OF

THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR JOHN CHAN.

THE

MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES

INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT,

BRANCH, ECONOMIC SERVICES BRANCH.

REPRESENTATIVES

FROM THE

HEALTH

DEPARTMENT, MONETARY AFFAIRS

AND WELFARE

BRANCH

AND

LABOUR BRANCH, FINANCE

THE TERMS OF REFERENCE OF

THE RETIREMENT

PROTECTION WORKING

GROUP ARE:

TO REVIEW RETIREMENT PROTECTION;

THE

EXISTING PROVISIONS

OR

SCHEMES

RELATING

TO

TO

THE PRACTICABILITY

OF POSSIBLE

OPTIONS FOR

ASSESS COMMUNITY-WIDE RETIREMENT PROTECTION;

TO ASSESS THE

IMPLICATIONS

(FINANCIAL, ECONOMIC,

LEGAL

AND

SOCIAL) OF POSSIBLE OPTIONS; AND

TO LIAISE WITH AND CONSULT RELEVANT BODIES.

IN

OF

NOT IS A THAT, IN COMPULSORY BY THE

ON THE STAND ΤΟ RESPONSE

THE SPECIFIC QUESTION

HAS CONCLUDED GOVERNMENT, THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL

IN ITS POSITION THAT, WHILE THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD MAINTAIN SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CENTRAL PROVIDENT FUND, THERE

AND SCHEMES RETIREMENT GREATER NEED FOR COMMUNITY-WIDE

INCLUDE VARIOUS

OF FORMS NOW BE EXAMINED

PRINCIPLE,

RETIREMENT

THESE SCHEMES,

SHOULD

WHICH SHOULD

ADMINISTRATION.

TOWN PLANNING ORDINANCE REVIEW TO COPE WITH RAPID CHANGES

ORDINANCE IS NOT AN THE TASK OF REVAMPING THE TOWN PLANNING

HAVE PLANNING EASY ONE, BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE SO THAT HONG KONG CAN

SOCIAL AND CAN COPE WITH THE RAPID POLITICAL, LEGISLATION THAT ECONOMIC CHANGES THAT ARE TAKING PLACE.

THIS WAS STATED TODAY (SATURDAY) BY THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, CONFERENCE ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, MR GRAHAM BARNES, WHEN ADDRESSING A

ORGANISED ON THE COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE TOWN PLANNING ORDINANCE, BY THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF EXTRAMURAL STUDIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.

PLANNERS

AND THE DEPARTMENT OF

/OUTLINING THE