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Medical Council examination results

In response to press enquiry on the result of the first Universal Licensing Examination announced by HKMC yesterday (Thursday), a spokesman for HKMC said today (Friday) that: "Out of the 154 candidates attending the Part I examination, 122 are from China.

States.

"Others (32) are from countries such as Canada, the Philippines and the United

"None of them are holding the former recognised Commonwealth diploma which would entitle them to be registered directly with the Medical Council before September 1, 1996."

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Nominations to be invited for LAB Election

The Labour Department will next week invite nominations from registered employee unions for representatives to stand for an election to the Labour Advisory Board (LAB) for a new term of office.

"The current term of the LAB will expire on December 31 this year. The department will send letters to all registered employee unions on October 8 (Tuesday) inviting them to nominate candidates for the election of five employee representatives to the Board in its next tenure," a spokesman for the department said today (Friday).

"The election will be held at 3 pm on November 30 (Saturday) in the Hall of Haking Wong Technical Institute at 702 Lai Chi Kok Road, Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon," he said.

The spokesman pointed out that all employee unions registered under the Trade Unions Ordinance on or before October 8 are eligible to make nominations. Each union may nominate up to five candidates.

Registered employee unions are also eligible to register as electors and appoint authorised representatives to attend the election, he added.

Nominations of employee representatives, registration of employee unions as electors and appointment of authorised representatives should be made in specified forms which should reach the Labour Department by 5.30 pm on November 4.