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DRAFT SPEECH BY DR HON HARRY FANG, CBE, LLD, JP LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 10.7.85

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Water Pollution Control (Amendment) Bill 1985

Sir,

A LegCo Ad Hoc Group has been set up under my convener ship to study the Water Pollution Control (Amendment) Bill 1985 and the draft Water Pollution Control (General)

Regulations. Having scrutinized these in great detail, we come to the conclusion that the Bill itself appears to be a straightforward, tidying-up exercise which seeks to clarify certain provisions of the Water Pollution Control Ordinance and we agree that this Bill should be allowed to proceed.

The Federation of Hong Kong Industries has,

nevertheless, expressed concern about the possible impact that the proposed legislation will have on the oil industry,

especially in the case of oil spillage. We have consulted the

Administration which confirms that the Amendment Bill will not

have any immediate effect on the oil industry.

With your permission, Sir, I would now like to speak

on the draft Water Pollution Control (General) Regulations,

which the Secretary for Health and Welfare had requested for

comments when he introduced the Bill into this Council on 12

June 1985.

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The Ad Hoc Group feels that the draft regulations

would have wide-ranging implications and we have great

reservation in its introduction.

We have invited

industrialists, factory owners and the public to present their

views on the draft regulations. So far, only three

representations have been received and they are from the

Federation of Hong Kong Industries, the Hong Kong Printers and Dyers Association Ltd and the Conservancy Association. The

Federation of Hong Kong Industries maintains that the Water

Pollution Control (General) Regulations 1985 should be further

clarified and refined so that while the objectives of

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