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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1992

"THESE RULES ARE GIVEN

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RECOGNITION IN THE NEW TERRITORIES NEW ORDINANCE WHICH PROVIDES THAT SUCCESSION TO ANCESTRAL LAND IN THE

CUSTOMARY LAW," HE TERRITORIES WILL GENERALLY BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH

SAID.

ON AS REGARDS THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE

STUDIED SUCH SUCH CUSTOMARY LAW, MR SUEN SAID THE ADMINISTRATION HAD IMPLICATIONS PRIOR TO THE ENACTMENT OF THE ORDINANCE.

OF THE THE FACT THAT CUSTOMARY A WAY DIFFERENT ΤΟ MEN DISCRIMINATORY UNDER THE

"AS THE COUNCIL WAS INFORMED DURING THE SECOND READING BILL OF RIGHTS BILL 1990 ON JULY 25, 1990, LAW IN THE NEW TERRITORIES TREATS WOMEN IN DOES NOT MEAN THAT THE LAW IS BILL OF RIGHTS.

NECESSARILY

"THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE

DIFFERENTIATION OF NOT MERELY

IT IS DISCRIMINATION.

"IF THE

REASONS FOR

TREATMENT

HAS OBSERVED THAT

THAT

CONSTITUTES

IN TREATMENT

WHICH

ARE

DOES NOT POLITICAL RIGHTS

THE DIFFERENTIATION AND THE

ONE PURPOSE IS REASONABLE AND OBJECTIVE CONTRAVENE THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANTS ON CIVIL AND THEN SUCH TREATMENT WILL NOT BE DISCRIMINATORY," HE ADDED.

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SIZE OF LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS EXPLAINED

WOULD THE SIZE OF THE "LOWER INCOME GROUP"

NUMBER IN PROPORTION TO THE INCREASE IN THE TOTAL HONG KONG,

SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THE

INCREASE DIRECTLY OF HOUSEHOLDS IN

MRS ANSON CHAN,

HON LAM KUI-CHUN, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY DR THE

NO GENERALLY AGREED DEFINITION MRS CHAN SAID THERE WAS

INCOME GROUP",

FOR THE

PURPOSE

REFERRED TO THE BOTTOM

DISTRIBUTION.

OF THE REPLY, THE "LOWER 60 PER CENT OF HOUSEHOLDS

OF "LOWER

INCOME GROUP" IN THE INCOME

PER CENT PER YEAR IN THE IN LINE WITH THE INCREASE OF 1.5

SIZE OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS IN THE LAST THREE YEARS, THE GROUP ALSO INCREASED AT THE SAME RATE, MRS CHAN SAID.

(A) IN

INCOME OF THE GROUP HAD IN ADDITION, THE

BEEN INCREASING FASTER THAN INFLATION AS MEASURED BY THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX THE LAST THREE YEARS.

BETWEEN 1988 AND 1991, THE MEDIAN MONTHLY HOUSEHOLD THIS GROUP INCREASED BY 48 PER CENT, BASED ON DATA OBTAINED

WHILE THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY,

INCOME OF FROM THE

(A)

INCREASED BY 35 PER CENT, SHE SAID.

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