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DRAFT SPEECH BY HON TAM YIU CHUNG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 29.10.1986

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Employees' Compensation (Amendment) Bill 1986

Sir,

to criticize

we come across verdicts Very often, it is only when which seem unreasonable before we begin to discover loopholes There in the wordings of certain provisions of an ordinance.

about this. But it is actually nothing much reflects that words, the vehicle meant for expressing

purpose or

or spirit of an ordinance, could requently become handicap to the understanding and enforcement of an ordinance.

the

a

an

The original Employees' Compensation Ordinance serves It was as a good example to illustrate the above situation. unfortunate for an employee to sustain physical injury in industrial accident. But it would be all the more unfortunate if he could not obtain his due compensation just because the provisions of the Ordinance were not sufficiently clear.

The

to amendments

been have who

to receive

a more

reasonable

injured in an

level of

This

the wordings of the Ordinance proposed by the Employees' Compensation (Amendment) Bill 1986 will further clarify the legal sense of the original ordinance,

and

enable employees will

industrial accident protection. For this reason, I welcome the amendments.

in the last

last Session. But for Bill should have been passed

Even such a certain reasons, it has been deferred until today.

certain has to experience a simple and reasonable amendment has

this makes trade unions and labour circles degree of delay;

feel worried and uneasy. It is hoped` that similar delay will

not reoccur in future.

Sir,

I support

the Employees' Compensation

(Amendment) Bill 1986.

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