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protecting

for pedestrians.

Will Government inform this Council

whether at places where there are many pedestrians there

should be two requirements, (1) that there should be a flat

cover for the pedestrians to walk on during excavation, and

during non-office hours there is also a channel for making

complaints for non-compliance?

SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS: Sir, I

can

confirm that the Code of Practice for the Lighting, Signing

and Guarding of Road Works

is

one

which would be less general than that which Mr. CHAN may think, that is

it may in certain circumstances prescribe a flat panelling for

walking over but in other circumstances it may prescribe

other methods. I doubt whether his idea of having a place

for complaints would be very cost-effective in itself because

it would mean a great deal of such places and, in effect,

unless the machinery was there to immediately act on those

complaints actually on the spot, very little more would be

achieved by having a place for receipt of complaints. In

effect, the numbers of complaints made about these road works

are not so great as he might have thought.