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Committee stage of Bills

Council went into Committee.

INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL CLAUSES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988

Clauses 1 and 2 were agreed to.

AUDIT (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988

Clauses 1 to 3 were agreed to.

MENTAL HEALTH (AMENDMENT) BILL 1987

Clauses 3, 5, 8 to 16, 18, 19, 21, 23 to 27 29 and 30 were agreed to.

Clauses 1, 17 and 20

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←SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE

Sir, I move that the clauses

specified be amended as set out in the paper circulated to Members. Clause 1 is a technical amendment change the date of the Bill to '1988'. Amendment to clause 17 deletes the word 'be detained' for new section 50(b). These are superfluous. Amendment to clause 20 inserts the words 'to a mental hospital' to a new section 52B(2) which have been omitted. The purpose of this section is to enable a person who is mentally disordered to be transferred from the Correctional Services Department Psychiatic Centre & Siu Lam to a mental hospital.

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