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Caseworkers from family services centres operated by the Social Welfare Department offer assistance to beggars in their districts from time to time. Apart from counselling them to give up begging, other social welfare services such as financial assistance, housing assistance, institutional care (for the elderly and the disabled) and employment assistance will also be provided to assist them to give up begging.

All visitors have to satisfy an immigration officer on their arrival at the point of entry that they have the necessary means of support during their period of stay in Hong Kong, before they are permitted to enter. In addition, the Police inform the Immigration Department of the personal particulars of any visitor prosecuted for begging; consideration will then be given to denying his entry in future.

End/Wednesday, June 21, 1995

Issue of fixed penalty tickets

Following is a question by the Hon Tam Yiu-chung and a written reply by the Secretary for Transport, Mr Haider Barma, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

Will the Government inform this Council:

(a)

of the number of Fixed Penalty Tickets for parking offences issued by law enforcement officers in each of the past 18 months;

(b)

(c)

of the criteria adopted by the law enforcement officers in deciding whether a penalty ticket should be issued; and

whether such criteria had been changed in the past 18 months; if so, what the reasons were?