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For the Animals and Plants (Protection of Endangered Species) Ordinance, fees are chargeable for licences to import, export or possess scheduled endangered species or controlled medicine.

Another AFD-administered legislation, the Pounds Ordinance, requires owners

of stray animals to pay fees to claim back their impounded animals.

Under the Plant (Importation and Pest Control) Ordinance, fees are payable for the issue of phytosanitary certificates, and for the maintenance and treatment of plants and soil under quarantine.

The last legislation affected by the revision is the Public Health (Animals and Birds) Ordinance. Under this ordinance, permits or licences to operate as animal traders and run pets-boarding or horse-riding establishments are required.

A spokesman for the department said it was Government policy, in general, to set fees at levels sufficient to recover full or nominal costs of providing the services.

Fees for the services were last reviewed ranging from more than one year to several years back.

The amendments to the ordinances and regulations, related to details of the new fees, will be published in the Government Gazette on Friday (February 17).

End/Wednesday, February 15, 1995

Three lots of land in Kwai Chung and Chai Wan to let

The Lands Department is inviting tenders for short-term tenancies of three lots of Government land on Hong Kong Island and in the New Territories.

The first lot in Kwai Chung has an area of 8,050 square metres for use as a fee- paying public car park for container tractors and trailers only.

The tenancy is for one year, renewable quarterly.

Covering an area of 2,760 square metres, the second lot at Lo Shue Pai, Chai Wan, is to be used for open storage of the tenant's goods, excluding containers, container vehicles and container tractors and trailers.