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To tie in with the "Serving the Community Week", the Land Registry will hold an opening ceremony for its Central Search Office on the 19th floor, Queensway Government Office, at 4.15 pm on December 3 (Tuesday).
The Central Search Office, which will start operating on December 16, will centralise all land search services which are currently provided on two different floors.
An out-reach programme to schools will be organised by the Planning Department from December 2 (Monday).
Exhibitions and talks on town planning will be held at 12 secondary schools throughout the territory. An opening ceremony to be officiated by the Director of Planning, Dr Peter Pun, at Saint Mark's School at 460 Shau Kei Wan Road, Shau Kei Wan, will be held at 10.15 am on December 2.
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Public continued to be reminded against drink driving
The Government will continue with its publicity efforts to remind the public against drink driving through television commercials as the festive season approaches, a spokesman for the Road Safety Council said today (Thursday).
"Drink driving is extremely dangerous and is a cause for many traffic accidents, some of them are fatal," he said.
Since August 3, drink driving has been taken as a criminal offence and is accorded a status equal to that of reckless driving, reckless driving causing death and furious driving.
Anyone who drives with an alcoholic level exceeding 35 micrograms per 100 milligrams of breath found at breath tests is liable to prosecution.
"A mere consumption of three half-pints of beer, 450 millilitres (three glasses) of table wine or 90 millilitres of alcoholic liquid will exceed such a level," the spokesman added.
He cited a case where a couple of weeks ago a taxi driver was found to have an alcoholic level of 148 micrograms, which is 4.3 times over the prescribed limit. His licence was subsequently suspended.
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