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Sir,

Motion

By the Honourable R.G.B. Bridge, OBE, JP, Secretary for Education and Manpower in the Legislative Council on 7 January 1987

Pneumoconiosis (Compensation) Ordinance (Cap 360)

I move the resolution standing in my name on

the Order Paper.

The purpose of the Pneumoconiosis Compensation

Fund is to provide compensation for workers, or their

dependants, who suffer incapacity or death as a result

of this occupational disease. The Fund is administered

by the Pneumoconiosis Compensation Fund Board and its

work is financed by a levy of 0.15 per cent on the value

of quarry products and of

works with a

value of at least $1 million.

construction

When a reduction in the rate of levy, from 0.2

per cent to 0.15 per cent, was proposed in this Council

in December 1985, my predecessor explained that

claimants were coming forward in smaller numbers and at

an earlier stage of the disease, with a consequent

decline in the amount of compensation

encouraging trend has continued and, at the end of

November last year, the accumulated surplus stood at $72

million.

paid. This