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set alight and blown by the wind to adjacent sheds, thus spreading the conflagration, resulting in heavy damage and loss of property. In view of the fact that the cause of the fire was due to the flimsy materials used as roofing of sheds, would Government give instructions that all roofings in future should be of tin sheets or non-inflammable materials?
THE COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT replied as follows:-
The Resettlement Department requires not only the roofs but also the walls of huts erected in Resite Areas to be clad in tin sheeting or other fire-resisting materials. The same condition is enforced when owners of tolerated structures in the older squatter areas apply for approval to repair or renovate their huts, and when fire victims in squatter areas are allowed to rebuild their huts in the same location.
I do not think it would be practicable to insist on all existing tolerated structures being similarly protected, even if we had the powers to do so. But Members may have noticed that many builders of new, illegal huts such as those at Ma Chai Hang have followed the example set in Resite Areas.
REPORT BY MR. FUNG HON-CHU, CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD AND FOOD PREMISES SELECT COMMITTEE, ON THE RESIGNATION OF MRS. E. ELLIOTT AS A MEMBER OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE.
Mr. Chairman, in accordance with the proviso to part (iv) of the Resolution adopted by this Council at its meeting on 7th April, 1964 I am reporting a change in the composition of the Food and Food Premises Select Committee, caused by the resignation of Mrs. ELLIOTT because of pressure of other work.
On behalf of my colleagues on the Select Committee, I would like to take this opportunity of expressing our sincere thanks to Mrs. ELLIOTT for her valuable services on the committee.
MRS. ELLIOTT:-Thank you.
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MOTIONS.
(1) Resumption of the following motion moved by THE CHAIRMAN on 4th August, 1964:-
THAT the Standing Orders of this Council adopted at the meeting of the Council held on 28th June, 1955 be amended as follows:-
Standing Order No. 23
Amendment
(i) by re-numbering Standing Order No. 23 as No. 23(1) and amending it by the addition of the words "and of any of its committees of which he is a Member" after the words "a meeting of the Council".
(ii) by the insertion of the following new sub-paragraph:---
"23(2) A Member who without valid reason is absent three times in a period of three months from any one Select Committee shall be reported to the Standing Committee of the Whole Council who shall have power to remove his name from that Select Committee".
CHAIRMAN: The motion has been proposed and seconded, and was adjourned until this meeting. Does any Member wish to speak?
(No Member wished to speak)
The question was put.
The motion was carried.
(2) MR. FUNG HON-CHU, Chairman of THE FOOD AND FOOD PREMISES SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following motion:
THAT the Food Business (Amendment) (No. 2) By-laws, 1964 be made under Section 56 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960.
He said:
The purpose of these by-laws is to amend the Food Business By-laws, 1960, so that
(a) The burden of proof of vaccination against smallpox or inoculation against the enteric group of fevers or im-
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set alight and blown by the wind to adjacent sheds, thus spreading the conflagration, resulting in heavy damage and loss of property. In view of the fact that the cause of the fire was due to the flimsy materials used as roofing of sheds, would Government give instructions that all roofings in future should be of tin sheets or non-inflam- mable materials?
THE COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT replied as follows:-
The Resettlement Department requires not only the roofs but also the walls of huts erected in Resite Areas to be clad in tin sheeting or other fire-resisting materials. The same condition is enforced when owners of tolerated structures in the older squatter areas apply for approval to repair or renovate their huts, and when fire victims in squatter areas are allowed to rebuild their huts in the same location.
I do not think it would be practicable to insist on all existing tolerated structures being similarly protected, even if we had the powers to do so. But Members may have noticed that many builders of new, illegal huts such as those at Ma Chai Hang have followed the example set in Resite Areas.
REPORT BY MR. FUNG HON-CHU, CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD AND FOOD PREMISES SELECT COMMITTEE, ON THE RESIGNATION OF MRS. E. ELLIOTT AS A
MEMBER OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE.
Mr. Chairman, in accordance with the proviso to part (iv) of the Resolution adopted by this Council at its meeting on 7th April, 1964 I am reporting a change in the composition of the Food and Food Premises Select Committee, caused by the resignation of Mrs. ELLIOTT because of pressure of other work.
On behalf of my colleagues on the Select Committee, I would like to take this opportunity of expressing our sincere thanks to Mrs.
ELLIOTT for her valuable services on the committee.
MRS. ELLIOTT:-Thank you.
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(1) Resumption of the following motion moved by THE CHAIRMAN on 4th August, 1964:-
THAT the Standing Orders of this Council adopted at the meeting of the Council held on 28th June, 1955 be amended as follows:-
Standing
Order No.
23
Amendment
(i) by re-numbering Standing Order No. 23 as No. 23(1) and amending it by the addition of the words "and of any of its committees of which he is a Member" after the words "a meeting of the Council".
(ii) by the insertion of the following new
sub-paragraph:---
"23(2) A Member who without valid reason is absent three times in a period of three months from any one Select Committee shall be reported to the Standing Com- mittee of the Whole Council who shall have power to remove his name from that Select Com- mittee".
CHAIRMAN: The motion has been proposed and seconded, and was adjourned until this meeting. Does any Member wish to speak?
(No Member wished to speak)
The question was put.
The motion was carried.
(2) MR. FUNG HON-CHU, Chairman of THE FOOD AND FOOD PREMISES SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following motion:
THAT the Food Business (Amendment) (No. 2) By-laws, 1964 be made under Section 56 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960.
He said:
The purpose of these by-laws is to amend the Food Business By-laws, 1960, so that
(a) The burden of proof of vaccination against smallpox or inoculation against the enteric group of fevers or im-
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