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Mr President,

I move that clause 12B of the Bill be amended as set out in the papers circulated to members. This amendment seeks to replace the amount of $2,100 by $2,570 in the proposed part 2A to be added to the First Schedule of the Pneumoconiosis (Compensation) Ordinance. This amendment is necessary as a result of the passage of a resolution by this Council on 13 December 1995 for increasing the amount of $2,100 in the formula for the calculation of the compensation for total incapacity in Part 2 of the First Schedule of the Pneumoconiosis (Compensation) Ordinance to $2,570 with effect from 1 January 1996. As Clause 12B of the Bill seeks to remove the set amount of $2,100 from the formula for the calculation of compensation for incapacity and make it a separate item of compensation for pain, suffering and loss of amenities under Part 2A of the First Schedule of the Ordinance. This compensation amount should be revised correspondingly to $2,570.

Mr President, I beg to move.

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Gas Safety Bill

Following is a speech by the Secretary for Economic Services, Mr Gordon Siu, at the committee stage of the Gas Safety (Amendment) (No 2) Bill 1995 in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

I move that clause 2 be amended as set out in the paper circulated to Members.

The purpose of the proposed amendment is to define more comprehensively the type of works which may give rise to damage to gas pipes by defining such works to include works on footpaths, the extraction of material from the land or the seabed, landfill works and reclamation works.

Mr Chairman, I beg to move.

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