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Subject

13 een Mary

Hospital (QMH)

14.Cigarette

Smoking

LABOUR

Purpose

(a) To increase the

clinical staff. at

MH, to review the long term staffing requirements, and to examine whether the integrated

system proposed for the Prince of Wales Hospital should be adopted for use at QMH.

(b) To expand and improve the facilities at QMH.

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Progress made and present position

(a) A meeting will be convened shortly to discuss the fifth draft report.

(b) The consultant architects have

commenced detailed planning and

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action is in hand to upgrade the project to Category of the Public Works Programme. The first meeting of the Project Co-ordinating Committee under the Chairmanship of Deputy Secretary for Social Services will be held on 24 November.

To consider what further Views of the local tobacco industry and measures should be taken results of public opinion survey have to deal with the problem been incorporated into the draft of smoking.

Executive Council Memorandum which was further considered by Chief Secretary's Committee on 19 October.

15.InternationalTo seek to improve the

Labour

application of ILO Conventions Conventions to Hong Kong. (ILO)...

16.Raising of To raise the level of penalties in penalties in order to the 19

create a more effective existing set$deterrent against

industrial accidents.

of the

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Factories and

Industrial

Undertakings (F & IU) Regulations

The aggregate situation to date is:

Applied without modification Applied with modification Decision reserved

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Amendments to final 14 sets of F & IU regulations were passed by Legislative Council on 14 October.

Next quarter target

To finalise the report.

To monitor progress.

To submit proposals

to Executive Counci

To consider improvi declarations in

respect of Conventi! Nos. 3, 122, 133 an 147.

Action completed.

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