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In addition, the Buildings Department has also set up a special task force to carry out an urgent survey of the buildings involved for necessary action to ensure safety.
The team will also inspect constructions in the vicinity to examine scope for enforcement action against all unauthorised building works.
Mrs Yu urged property owners to seek professional advice and where necessary, approval for building works in order to comply with safety standards. As for canopies, they must also be properly maintained and if necessary, repaired, after construction.
"Unauthorised building works may pose danger. Property owners should therefore take heed for their own life and property, their families and members of the public," Mrs Yu said.
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End/Thursday, November 16, 1995
Unemployment and underemployment statistics
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the period July to September 1995 was 3.5%, and the underemployment rate was 2.5%, according to the latest labour force statistics released today (Thursday) by the Census and Statistics Department.
The provisional seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the period August to October 1995 was 3.6%, while the provisional underemployment rate was 2.3%.
A government spokesman commented that, having regard to sampling fluctuations in the General Household Survey which could give rise to minor variations in the unemployment and underemployment rates in successive three-month periods, the overall labour market situation as reflected by these latest figures may be regarded as broadly stable.
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