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the

legislation to introduce improvements to the love since

payment scheme and to set up Occupatinal Safety Question No and Health you the Secretary for Education and Manpower

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to a question by the Hon Tam Yiu-chung in the Legislative Council on 25 May 1988

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Question

سيا سور

7. MR. TAM asked (in Cantonese):

Will Government inform this Council :

(a)

When it will introduce amendments to

existing legislation to Service Payment Scheme

legislation to establish the Safety and Health Council; and

improve the Long for workers and

Occupational

(b)

Why it has taken so

so long to prepare legislative proposals?

these

Answer

SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER:

Sir,

b

Barring

unforeseen

circumstances

introduce both Bills to this Council during June.

we hope to

The proposed amendments to the long service payment

scheme will provide for payment on grounds of ill health, old

age, or

or on the death of the employee.

in

Drafting has proceeded

general, except that

it has

proved

rather

smoothly complicated to set out in legal language the provisions for payment upon the death of an employee and to make sure that the payment went to the right person. After careful consideration

four and drafts of the Bill we are now satisfied that we have got it right. Members will be able to judge for themselves within

the next few weeks.

The Occupational Safety and Health Council is to be funded by a levy on employees' compensation insurance premia.

The mechanism for collecting the levy has required extensive

discussion with those concerned, and it was not until earlier

this month that agreement was finally reached.