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SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY:

Sir, yes, I am aware of the ban on toy guns in country parks. Now, this is part of a number of special rules affecting, for instance, radios, designed to keep these areas particularly peaceful, both for the human visitors and for the animals and birds which inhabit them. I think to extend a ban in those particular circumstances

outside country

parks would be a drastic measure which would go beyond the scale of the problem we so far identified.

Mr.

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PETER C.WONG: Sir, I am thoroughly concerned with the last sentence of

the Secretary's reply which reads 'in the case referred by Dr HO, the injury

was caused because unfortunately the victim was accidentally hit in the eye. May I ask the Secretary, Sir, how similar accidents could be prevented in the

future?

I have

SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY:

Sir, yes, the significance of the last sentence

joules or less is normally not sufficient

was really that the force of two

to break the human skin, but obviously the weak points in the body is the eye.

And this is the particular case here. As to what more we can do to prevent

from

not

this sort of accident happening again, I do have a ready answer, but certainly we

人 will consider your point and see if we can think up some method.