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Supplementary to Question No. 5

in Legco Meeting on 27.4.88

MR.

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EDWARD HO : Sir, in the Secretary's reply, he stated

that it is intended to strengthen the establishment of the

Buildings and Lands Department So that buildings can be

surveyed systematically. Will he inform this Council

whether this huge task of surveying some 60,000 buildings

can be done by an enlarged establishment? And if so, what

would be the time span required to complete the survey,

and whether, in the meantime,

in the meantime, some people might be living

in buildings that may cause danger to life and limb?

SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS : In my reply, Sir, I said a

systematic survey, by which I mean a survey of buildings

which will be taken in priority of their likelihood of

deterioration. I believe that by the strengthening of the

Buildings Ordinance, we should in two or three years' time

get to a position, in which we will be up to date with the

buildings which require survey most urgently, and

and we

also have a good knowledge of later buildings.

we will