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An amusement ride in :

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Category A means any ride which is permitted to carry not more than 2 persons;

b)

Category B means any ride which is permitted to carry not more than 5 persons; and

c)

Category C means any ride which is permitted to carry not more than 20 persons.

Fee revision proposed for fire report

The Government is proposing to revise the fee for the issue of a report on fire or other calamities attended by officers of the Fire Services Department (FSD).

The Fire Services Department (Reports and Certificates) (Amendment) Regulation 1997, which contains the revision, is gazetted today (Friday).

Under the Fire Services Department (Reports and Certificates) Regulations, the Director of Fire Services (DFS) may issue a report on fire or other calamities to any person applying in writing and upon payment of the appropriate fee.

A Government spokesman said that it was Government policy that fees should in general be set at levels sufficient to recover the full cost of providing the services.

He noted that the existing fee of $180 for a fire report has been in force since

1994.

"A recent costing review of the fire report fee by the DFS has shown that the full cost of issuing such a report at 1996-97 prices is $380.

"The increase in cost reflects the increase in professional input from fire officers in preparing the reports to cope with the demand for more technical information by the applicants in recent years," the spokesman said.