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"All the defendants pleaded guilty and were fined $2,000 to $15,000," the spokesman said.

The offence committed by the unregistered contractors carries a maximum fine of $50,000 on first conviction, and $100,000 on a subsequent conviction for the same offence, in addition to imprisonment for six months.

End/Sunday, August 20, 1995

Fleet Veterans' Parade

Over 100 Royal Navy veterans, many of whom served in Admiral Harcourt's Task Force which effected the re-establishment of British Sovereignty in Hong Kong on August 30, 1945, are back in the Territory to take part in the Fleet Veterans' Parade, at Edinburgh Place, Central, on Tuesday (August 22).

The parade is the first event of the 12-day commemorative programme to mark the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Hong Kong and honours the veterans of the British Pacific and East Indies Fleets, some of whom saw service with Admiral Harcourt in his flagship, the aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable.

Attending the parade will be the acting Governor, Mrs Anson Chan, who will take the salute, and the Senior Naval officer Hong Kong, Captain Peter Melson.

Men from HMS Tamar, who will form a 24-man guard and colour escort, will parade alongside two 18-man unarmed platoons provided by personnel from HM Ships Peacock, Plover and Starling, the three ships of the Hong Kong Squadron. Also in attendance will be the British Army's Queen's Division Minden Band, who have flown out from their UK base at Colchester, to take part in the commemorations.

HMS Plover, moored in Victoria Harbour, will fire two salutes, one to mark the beginning and one to mark the end of the two minutes silence after which a service of remembrance will be conducted by the Senior Chaplain to the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong, Peter Ellis.