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The new measures would be implemented on an administrative basis by the issue by the Building Authority of new practice notes. Subsequently changes to the Building (Planning) Regulations will have to be made.
"In addition, as a complementary course of action, the Government has identified two sites which are considered suitable to be zoned specifically for hotel development," the spokesman said. A recommendation will be made to the Town Planning Board.
"It is hoped that the above measures will be welcomed by the industry and help stimulate hotel development," the spokesman said.
Some 14,000 to 16,500 new hotel rooms are required in the next 10 years in order to cope with the forecast demands, according to the Federation of Hong Kong Hotels Owners Ltd and the Hong Kong Tourist Association.
End/Friday, September 8, 1995
Regulations to enhance maritime safety gazetted
The Government is introducing a series of regulations under the Merchant Shipping (Safety) Ordinance to make them fall in line with the amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), a Government spokesman said today (Friday).
In light of experience from shipping casualties over the past few years, the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has reviewed regulations relating to ship construction and design.
As a result, a series of changes have been introduced to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea.
"Hong Kong supports the decision of the IMO in strengthening safety and ship construction," the spokesman said.
As a party to SOLAS and as an associated member of the IMO, Hong Kong is obliged to give effect to these amendments which are reflected in the following regulations published in the Government Gazette today.
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