TNAG-1729-FCO40-2442-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 157

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In the meantime, continuous improvements are made by the Civil Engineering Services Department in the drainage and sewerage systems and a direct labour force is retained for the earliest possible clearance of blockages.

Before I proceed to mention various other

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matters related more to the nitty gritty of development and land administration, I would like to say something regarding the attitude we have ten towards professional registration for architects, engineers, surveyors and planners. It is true, as Mr. Cheng Hon-kwan said, that the progress has been slow, but the time has been taken, by the Administration's efforts to obtain common agreement on what might be termed as consistency with the professional. bodies on what registration involves. The administration sees statutory registration both as a safeguard of professionalism and as a form of consumer protection. · Our aim is to ensure that registration will, mean broadly, but

+ These tour not necessarily precisely the same for each professions, so that the public in accepting the concept of a registered professional will have sufficient assurance that a professional in one of Hong Kong's register is qualified, competent to practise and has an effective institutional watchdog for his activities. I believe we are making considerable progress, and I am optimsitic that we will be able to introduce the first registration bill within the

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next legislative session if hot more than one.

And now, Sir, for what I just termed nitty

gritty. Mr. Chan Ying-lun raised the question of the adequacy of ex-gratia allowances for squatter clearances and clearances of fire victims. It has always been and