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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1992

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BRIEF," SHE

PRESENCE

EXPLAINED, "THESE ARE WHEN A DONOR EITHER CONSENTED IN WRITING AT ANY TIME OR CONSENTED ORALLY IN THE OF TWO OR MORE WITNESSES DURING HIS LAST ILLNESS.

"ALTERNATIVELY, THE NEXT OF KIN OF A DECEASED PERSON MAY CONSENT IN WRITING, AS LONG AS THE DECEASED HAD NOT INDICATED ANY PREVIOUS OBJECTION TO BEING A DONOR, IE NOT OPTED-OUT, AND HIS SPOUSE, CHILD OR PARENTS DO NOT OBJECT TO THE DONATION."

MRS WONG ALSO REVEALED THAT AN AD HOC GROUP OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WAS STUDYING THE HUMAN ORGAN TRANSPLANT BILL WHICH PROVIDED, INTER ALIA, FOR ORGAN DONATION BY LIVING RELATIVES AND SPOUSE AND THE SETTING UP OF A HUMAN ORGAN TRANSPLANT BOARD.

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SPECIAL SECURITIES LEVY PROPOSED TO BE WITHDRAWN

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THE SECURITIES AND FUTURES COMMISSION IS CONSIDERING THE FORMULATION OF LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS TO RECOMMEND AN ORDERLY WIND-DOWN AND ELIMINATION OF THE SPECIAL LEVY IMPOSED ON SECURITIES

TRANSACTIONS.

THIS WAS STATED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) BY THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR MONETARY AFFAIRS, MR TAM WING-PONG, WHEN REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON CHIM PUI-CHUNG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

MR TAM SAID THE GOVERNMENT HAD NO PLANS ΤΟ SPEED UP THE RECOVERY OF THE OUTSTANDING CREDIT FACILITIES EXTENDED то THE THEN HONG KONG FUTURES GUARANTEE CORPORATION LTD AFTER THE 1987 STOCK MARKET CRASH.

THE BULK OF THE LOAN HAS BEEN REPAID AND THE OUTSTANDING AMOUNT WOULD BE FULLY REPAID BY EARLY 1994, DEPENDING ON THE MARKET TURNOVERS.

"THUS WE FEEL THAT THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A NEED, NOR WOULD IT BE APPROPRIATE, TO TEMPER WITH THE EXISTING STATUTORY STRUCTURE OF THE SPECIAL LEVY TO ARTIFICIALLY ACCELERATE THE LOAN REPAYMENTS. HE SAID.

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NO HAEMOPHILIACS CONTRACT HU AT PUBLIC HOSPITALS

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KONG

THE

AND THE

THERE IS NO RECORD AS TO WHETHER THE 61 HAEMOPHILIACS IN HONG WHO ARE CONFIRMED TO HAVE BEEN INFECTED BY HIV HAVE CONTRACTED DISEASE THROUGH MEDICAL TREATMENT AT PUBLIC HOSPITALS.

THIS WAS STATED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) BY THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH WELFARE, MRS ELIZABETH WONG, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION HON MRS PEGGY LAM IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

BY

/"THE GOVERNMENT