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or on a wider scale when, say, ten or more such operations

line up along a village access road, is often traumatic and

is of a kind, for which any responsible Government must try

to afford some rational means of control. The Town Planning

(Amendment) Bill 1990 is about just that.

Government is already carrying out an overall

revision of the Town Planning Ordinance and a consultation

document will be published early in 1991 for public comment.

Because it is a very complex area, we do not expect the

revised Ordinance to be enacted before 1992. The provisions

of the Town Planning (Amendment) Bill 1990 will of course be

subsumed in or replaced by the revised Ordinance.

7.

The (Amendment) Bill was gazetted at the end of

July and at the same time a consultative document was

published to guide the public.

support

while to attempt to answer some of the main questions

which have been raised about it.

8.

The first is - Given that Government was in any

case revising the whole Ordinance, why could not it wait for

enactment of the revised Ordinance before imposing control

in the New Territories rural areas? The answer is simple.