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MR. BERNACCHI:-I would like to ask, does this mean that the normal Government tender procedures apply? It is not then limited to resettlement estates tenants?
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT:-That is correct, Mr. Chairman, there is no such limitation.
(2) MR. CHARLES C. C. SIN asked the following question:
Could this Council be informed of measures taken to ensure that staff employed in restaurants and food factories are free of any communicable diseases?
MR. PETER P. K. NG, CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD & FOOD PREMISES SELECT COMMITTEE replied as follows:-
All persons engaged in food handling are required to hold a valid immunisation certificate covering small-pox, enteric group of fevers and cholera. All food factories and restaurants are inspected at least once a fortnight at which time all immunisation cards are checked. In addition, any inspector who observes an employee showing signs of a wound or sore which is likely to spread a disease will immediately call in a health officer who is empowered to prohibit such person to work or to take part in any food business if he is satisfied that the person, after medical examination, is suffering from any communicable disease. Any person employed in the food business found without a valid immunisation card is subject to prosecution. In the past 12 months, 609 persons were convicted in this respect.
MR. SIN: I would like to ask a supplementary. The inspector, apart from checking the cards, does he carry out an inspection of the employees?
(Mr. James M. H. WU arrived at this point).
MR. NG: What does MR. SIN mean exactly by checking employees?
MR. SIN: Does he carry out a physical inspection after examining them.
MR. NG: Mr. Chairman, I don't think that is physically possible to do.
MR. SIN: Then the answer is "yes" or "no"?
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MR. NG:-The answer is "No". It is impossible to give a physical examination every two weeks.
MR. Y. K. KAN:-Mr. Chairman, when these people are convicted, are they supposed to be fined for a certain amount of money or what normally are the fines?
MR. NG: Mr. Chairman, I think that is not for anyone to say except for the Magistrate.
MR. KAN:-Mr. Chairman, I was trying to ascertain in the past, what was the average or general figures?
CHAIRMAN:-I am afraid I have no idea. I would be prepared to tell you after this meeting.
(3) MRS. E. ELLIOTT asked the following question:
As the Resettlement Department and the Urban Services Department have in recent months been ruling out appeals without reference to the Committees set up for that purpose, would the heads of those two departments please clarify if they have the statutory power to rule out appeals and thus be judges of their own departments, and if so, will the appeals committees henceforth be cancelled?
THE CHAIRMAN, URBAN COUNCIL, replied as follows:-
I am not aware and neither is the Commissioner for Resettlement of any appeal relating to any matter falling within the jurisdiction of this Council not having gone forward to an appropriate committee. If Mrs. ELLIOTT thinks otherwise, perhaps she would be good enough to let me and the Commissioner have details after this meeting. In any case, the law and standing orders allow for appeals or reviews which are inherent in agreed committee procedure-and therefore neither the Commissioner for Resettlement nor I have any authority to rule out such appeals.
(Miss Cecilia L. Y. YEUNG arrived at this point).
MRS. ELLIOTT:-Mr. Chairman, would you deny that you ruled out an appeal for a group of hawkers in Centre Street?
CHAIRMAN:-I do.
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MR. BERNACCHI:-I would like to ask, does this mean that the normal Government tender procedures apply? It is not then limited to resettlement estates tenants?
COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT:-That is correct, Mr. Chair- man, there is no such limitation.
(2) MR. CHARLES C. C. SIN asked the following question:
Could this Council be informed of measures taken to ensure that staff employed in restaurants and food factories are free of any communicable diseases?
MR. PETER P. K. NG, CHAIRMAN OF THE FOOD & FOOD PREMISES SELECT COMMITTEE replied as follows:-
All persons engaged in food handling are required to hold a valid immunisation certificate covering small-pox, enteric group of fevers and cholera. All food factories and restaurants are inspected at least once a fortnight at which time all immunisation cards are checked. In addition, any inspector who observes an employee showing signs of a wound or sore which is likely to spread a disease will immediately call in a health officer who is empowered to prohibit such person to work or to take part in any food business if he is satisfied that the person, after medical examination, is suffering from any communicable disease. Any person employed in the food business found without a valid immunisation card is subject to prosecution. In the past 12 months, 609 persons were convicted in this respect.
MR. SIN: I would like to ask a supplementary. The inspector, apart from checking the cards, does he carry out an inspection of the employees?
(Mr. James M. H. WU arrived at this point).
MR. NG: What does Mr. SIN mean exactly by checking em- ployees?
MR. SIN: Does he carry out a physical inspection after examin- ing them.
MR. NG: Mr. Chairman, I don't think that is physically possible
to do.
MR. SIN: Then the answer is "yes" or "no"?
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MR. NG:-The answer is "No". It is impossible to give a physical examination every two weeks.
MR. Y. K. KAN:-Mr. Chairman, when these people are convicted, are they supposed to be fined for a certain amount of money or what normally are the fines?
MR. NG: Mr. Chairman, I think that is not for anyone to say except for the Magistrate.
MR. KAN:-Mr. Chairman, I was trying to ascertain in the past, what was the average or general figures?
CHAIRMAN:-I am afraid I have no idea. I would be prepared to tell you after this meeting.
(3) MRS. E. ELLIOTT asked the following question:
As the Resettlement Department and the Urban Services Department have in recent months been ruling out appeals without reference to the Committees set up for that purpose, would the heads of those two departments please clarify if they have the statutory power to rule out appeals and thus be judges of their own departments, and if so, will the appeals committees henceforth be cancelled?
THE CHAIRMAN, URBAN COUNCIL, replied as follows:-
I am not aware and neither is the Commissioner for Resettle- ment of any appeal relating to any matter falling within the jurisdiction of this Council not having gone forward to an appropriate committee. If Mrs. ELLIOTT thinks otherwise, perhaps she would be good enough to let me and the Commissioner have details after this meeting. In any case, the law and standing orders allow for appeals or reviews which are inherent in agreed committee pro- cedure-and therefore neither the Commissioner for Resettlement nor I have any authority to rule out such appeals.
(Miss Cecilia L. Y. YEUNG arrived at this point).
MRS. ELLIOTT:-Mr. Chairman, would you deny that you ruled out an appeal for a group of hawkers in Centre Street?
CHAIRMAN:-I do.
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