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the

Mr. POON Chi-fai (in Cantonese) : Mr. Chairman, will the

Government consider taking prosecution actions against

owners, the contractors, or the tenants of the unauthorised

structures if there should be accidents leading to fatalities?

Works

Sir, this

matter has been

Secretary for Lands and

considered in the past but it has not been considered

effective. There have been prosecutions in the past on this

and depending on the results of the coroner's inquiry we will

take thought as

whether that would be a useful

have

to

procedure.

to

Mr. CHEONG-LEEN : Sir, can an

Sir, can an assurance be given that when the

set of proposals are put forward to district boards for their

views, a realistic programme will be put forward to ensure that

there will be a sufficient number of demolition teams to catch

up with the backlog which is mentioned in the Secretary's reply

at 25,000 or thereabouts?

Secretary for Lands and Works : Sir, I do not foresee in the

next few years catching up with the backlog of

the backlog of reported or

known cases of unauthorised buildings. What we would hope to

do is to improve our knowledge concerning dangerous buildings

and tackle the other priorities and also tackle those building

alterations to which district boards and others give priority

themselves.