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Legitimacy Ordinance

Following is the speech by the Secretary for Security, Mr Peter Lai, in moving the motion on the Legitimacy Ordinance in Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Mr President,

I move the third motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. It seeks to increase the fees specified in the Schedule to the Legitimacy Ordinance.

The Legitimacy Ordinance provides for the re-registration of the birth of legitimated persons. Fees collected relate to the re-registration of births and the issue of certified copies of entries of the birth of legitimated persons. The fees were last revised in July 1995. It is now proposed to revise the fees from $270 to $295 for re- registration of births, and from $110 to $120 for a certified copy of an entry of the birth in the register of births.

Mr President, I beg to move.

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Anti-drugs co-operation to be extended to Thailand

An amendment order seeking to extend the bilateral co-operation in the suppression of drug trafficking to the Kingdom of Thailand has been approved by the Legislative Council today (Wednesday).

Details are contained in the Drug Trafficking (Recovery of Proceeds) (Designated Countries & Territories)(Amendment) Order 1996.

Moving a resolution to seek the Council's approval of the Order, the Secretary for Security, Mr Peter Lai, said the amendment order would add the Kingdom of Thailand to the list of countries and territories designated under the Drug Trafficking (Recovery of Proceeds) Ordinance, so as to enable their confiscation and related orders to be enforced in Hong Kong, and to allow assistance to be provided in relation to their drug trafficking investigations.