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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1994

INSPECTIONS

KWUN TONG

LAST

DISTRICT LANDS OFFICE STAFF HAVE CARRIED OUT 1,120

BUILDINGS WITHIN

BAY THE

AND INDUSTRIAL

KOWLOON

UP TO THE END OF

INDUSTRIAL AREAS IN THE THREE YEARS PERIOD

OF

MONTH.

WERE INSPECTIONS THESE

INITIATED EITHER AS A RESULT OF

OR COMPLAINTS

AS PART OF THE CONTINUING PROGRAMME OF ENFORCEMENT AGAINST

MISUSE OF PARKING SPACES THE

BUILDINGS WITHIN INDUSTRIAL AGREED BY THE KWUN TONG DISTRICT BOARD.

A WHEN

BREACH IS DISCOVERED, A WARNING LETTER CAN REQUIRING A LOT OWNER TO CORRECT THE BREACH.

BE

ISSUED

IF THE BREACH IS NOT CORRECTED, THE LOT MAY BE RE-ENTERED UNDER THE CROWN RIGHTS ORDINANCE.

MAY

MR

SAID IN THE THREE YEAR PERIOD UP TO THE .FND OF BASON THIS YEAR, 132 WARNING LETTERS RELATED TO BREACHES OF IEASE CONDITIONS IN INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS IN THE KOWLOON BAY AND KWUN TONG AREA HAD BEEN ISSUED.

OF THESE, 36 RELATED TO PARKING SPACES, AND THE BREACHES IN ALL THESE CASES HAVE BEEN CORRECTED.

THE POSSIBLE NEED ΤΟ INCREASE STAFF DEPLOYED

REGULAR REVIEW ENFORCEMENT DUTIES WAS KEPT UNDER OTHER PRIORITIES, HE SAID.

ON LEASE HAVING REGARD то

INCREASE IN HA DIRECTORATE POSTS

* *

THERE ARE 359 POSTS IN THE HOSPITAL AUTHORITY (HA) THAT ARE EQUIVALENT TO DIRECTORATE POSTS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE, THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE, MRS ELIZABETH WONG, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THIS COMPARES WITH 278 POSTS WHEN THE HA TOOK OVER CONTROL OF THE HOSPITALS ON DECEMBER 1, 1991.

IN HER WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON MICHAEL HO, MRS WONG SAID THE INCREASE WAS THE NET EFFECT OF A REDUCTION OF TWO POSTS AT THE HEAD OFFICE LEVEL AND AN ADDITION OF 83 POSTS AT THE HOSPITAL LEVEL.

SHE POINTED OUT THAT THE HA WAS EMPOWERED TO DETERMINE THE REMUNERATION AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF ALL EMPLOYEES WORKING IN THE AUTHORITY, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE POST OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE.

OF

ON THE MEANS BY WHICH THE GOVERNMENT MONITORED THE CREATION SUCH POSTS, MRS WONG SAID THAT UNDER THE HA ORDINANCE, THE DIRECTOR OF AUDIT MIGHT CONDUCT EXAMINATIONS ON THE ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY WITH WHICH THE AUTHORITY HAD EXPENDED

IN DISCHARGING ITS STATUTORY FUNCTIONS.

RESOURCES

/"THE AUTHORITY

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