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Works will start soon for completion in December 1997.

The department's Hong Kong Region Office has commissioned the works project to Acer Consultants (Far East) Limited, who has designed the works and will supervise their construction.

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Fees for dangerous goods services revised

Fees for services set out in four regulations related to mining and the manufacture, storage, conveyance and usage of explosives will be revised with effect from November 1, 1996.

The four regulations are the Mining (General) (Amendment) Regulation 1996, Mines (Safety) (Amendment) Regulation 1996, Dangerous Goods (Government Explosives Depots) (Amendment) Regulation 1996 and Dangerous Goods (General) (Amendment) Regulation 1996.

A government spokesman said the revised fees were necessary to recover the administrative and operating costs involved.

He expected that the effect of the new fees on the construction industry as a whole would be minimal as the costs of explosives used for blasting constituted a very small part of the total cost of construction projects:

The old and new fees for some of the major services set out in the four regulations are as follows:

Old

New

Permit for discharge of explosives

$31,200

$38,920

Licence to store explosives

$23,800

$26,060

Permit to move explosives

$ 105

$

170

Renewal of a mine blasting certificate

$ 1,200

$ 1,910

Delivery of explosives exceeding 50 kilograms

$ 4,075

$ 4,850

but not exceeding 100 kilograms