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A Government spokesman said: "It, has come to the Housing Department's notice that some mortgages for Home Ownership Scheme/Private Sector Participation Scheme flats, which do not comply with the terms on which the Director of Housing has signified his approval, have been executed.
"Legal advice is that it would be inappropriate to take prosecution action on the basis of the present provisions in the Housing Ordinance."
Other proposals in the bill include giving the Housing Authority specific power to employ its own staff and advisory services, and removing the need for the Director of Housing to appoint a long list of public officers to whom his power is delegated and to update the list frequently.
The bill will be gazetted on January 13 and be introduced into the Legislative Council on January 25 this year.
End/Wednesday, January 4, 1995
Regulations on bedspace apartments to be gazetted
Regulations prescribing a fee scale for the issue and renewal of certificates of exemption and licences for bedspace apartments as well as governing the operation of the Bedspace Apartments Appeal Board will be gazetted on Friday (January 6).
They are the Bedspace Apartments (Fees) Regulation and the Bedspace Apartments (Appeal Board) Regulation, which will come into effect on February 9.
A spokesman for the Home Affairs Branch today (Wednesday) said under the fee'regulation, bedspace apartment operators would have to pay $90 for the issue and annual renewal of a certificate of exemption.
As to the issue and renewal of licence, the fee will be set on a sliding scale depending on the number of permitted bedspaces in the apartments.
It will range from $370 for a bedspace apartment with 12 to 20 permitted bedspaces to a maximum of $2,280 for one with more than 70 permitted bedspaces.
The spokesman pointed out that the proposed scale of fees would only cover the administrative costs of the licensing scheme.
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