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Sir,

Speech by the Hon. E. P. Ho, CBE, JP, Secretary for Trade and Industry, in Legislative Council on 7 January 1987

Resumption of debate on Second Reading of The Post Office (Amendment) Bill 1986

I

analysis and to express my appreciation

would like to thank Mrs Chow for her helpful

to Members of the

Ad Hoc

Hoc Group for

their careful scrutiny of

this Bill.

I

endorse

Mrs

Chow's comments and

the support

proposed

amendments to give the courts greater discretion in respect

of inertia-selling.

Mrs Chow's remarks have largely covered the

various points raised by Mr Cheong-leen.

I would only like.

to add two observations.

First,

although

meaningful

statistics

on

the number of

complaints

received

are not

available, I

can assure

Mr Cheong-leen

that the scale of

the problem is sufficient to justify the measures proposed

in this Bill. The Chambers of Commerce and major industry

organisations

have been

support of these measures.

Secondly, our

consulted

and

they are also

in

experience with inertia-selling

activities is that they

tend to involve

international

operations and

it may

not

therefore be fruitful

to draw

/too fine

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