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barge service used to transport refuse from Hong Kong to Gin Drinker's Bay.
(c) To continue to press for the allocation of land for the siting of adequate off-street refuse collection points in the urban areas.
(d) To press for the elimination of pig-breeding and pig keeping in the urban areas in the interests of public health and for the abatement of nuisance.
(e) To press on public health grounds for improvements in the system of sewage disposal.
(f) To press on public health grounds for the provision of mains water supplies to all parts of the urban areas.
(g) To further the knowledge and understanding of the Council's health education policies in all sections of the community and, particularly, among school children.
Food Hygiene
(a) To continue to improve the methods of enforcement of the bylaws and regulations relating to food, maintaining close liaison with other departments.
(b) To keep under review the legislation relating to food in the light of developing food technology and of research in food science.
(c) To keep abreast of developments in the field of additives and contaminants in food in conjunction with the Government laboratory.
(d) To continue co-operation with other Government departments concerned with food imports and exports to ensure departmental procedures do not conflict and that efficiency is maintained. In addition, to place particular emphasis on the need to maintain proper health standards of foodstuffs destined for export.
Food Premises
To raise the standard of hygiene in all food premises by:
(a) Continuing to enforce compliance with the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, Cap. 132, and Subsidiary Legislation in so far as it relates to food premises.
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(b) Processing all applications for licences by a Central Licensing Unit to ensure that licences are granted as expeditiously as possible, and to further improve the licensing procedure whenever appropriate.
(c) Exercising control over the use of coin-operated automatic vending machines for the sale of food and drinks by introducing new legislation for licensing them.
(d) Working closely with the Housing Department and/or the Architectural Office, Public Works Department, in improving the design of food premises in the new estates and housing projects.
(e) Intensifying control and prosecution of unlicensed or unhygienic food premises and taking such action as may be practicable to prevent the operation of illegal or unhygienic food businesses.
Liquor Licensing
(a) To continue to review the legislation relating to liquor licensing and the control of licensed premises, and to recommend appropriate amendments.
(b) To streamline the licensing procedure.
(c) To intensify enforcement of the Dutiable Commodities (Liquor) Regulations 1970.
Hawkers
(a) To continue to press for the provision of land for the creation of off-street hawker bazaars and sites for markets.
(b) To introduce General Duties Teams on an experimental basis through the new district offices in Kowloon, particularly with regard to better orderliness and cleanliness in hawker areas and to discourage illegal hawking.
(c) To continue to press for Secretariat agreement to the policy approved by the Council to compensate Cooked Food Stall operators whose stalls are cleared without being resited.
(d) To ensure that hawkers and others affected know and understand better the aims of the Council's policy and the requirements of the law.
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barge service used to transport refuse from Hong Kong to Gin Drinker's Bay.
(c) To continue to press for the allocation of land for the siting of adequate off-street refuse collection points in the urban
areas.
(d) To press for the elimination of pig-breeding and pig keeping in the urban areas in the interests of public health and for the abatement of nuisance.
(e) To press on public health grounds for improvements in the
system of sewage disposal.
(f) To press on public health grounds for the provision of mains
water supplies to all parts of the urban areas.
(g) To further the knowledge and understanding of the Council's health education policies in all sections of the community and, particularly, among school children.
Food Hygiene
(a) To continue to improve the methods of enforcement of the bylaws and regulations relating to food, maintaining close liaison with other departments.
(b) To keep under review the legislation relating to food in the light of developing food technology and of research in food science.
(c) To keep abreast of developments in the field of additives and contaminants in food in conjunction with the Government laboratory.
(d) To continue co-operation with other Government departments concerned with food imports and exports to ensure depart- mental procedures do not conflict and that efficiency is main- tained. In addition, to place particular emphasis on the need to maintain proper health standards of foodstuffs destined for export.
Food Premises
To raise the standard of hygiene in all food premises by:
(a) Continuing to enforce compliance with the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, Cap. 132, and Subsidiary Legisla- tion in so far as it relates to food premises.
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(b) Processing all applications for licences by a Central Licensing Unit to ensure that licences are granted as expeditiously as possible, and to further improve the licensing procedure whenever appropriate.
(c) Exercising control over the use of coin-operated automatic vending machines for the sale of food and drinks by intro- ducing new legislation for licensing them.
(d) Working closely with the Housing Department and/or the Architectural Office, Public Works Department, in improving the design of food premises in the new estates and housing projects.
(e) Intensifying control and prosecution of unlicensed or un- hygienic food premises and taking such action as may be practicable to prevent the operation of illegal or unhygienic food businesses.
Liquor Licensing
(a) To continue to review the legislation relating to liquor licens- ing and the control of licensed premises, and to recommend appropriate amendments.
(b) To streamline the licensing procedure.
(c) To intensify enforcement of the Dutiable Commodities
(Liquor) Regulations 1970.
Hawkers
(a) To continue to press for the provision of land for the creation
of off-street hawker bazaars and sites for markets.
(b) To introduce General Duties Teams on an experimental basis through the new district offices in Kowloon, particularly with regard to better orderliness and cleanliness in hawker areas and to discourage illegal hawking.
(c) To continue to press for Secretariat agreement to the policy approved by the Council to compensate Cooked Food Stall operators whose stalls are cleared without being resited.
(d) To ensure that hawkers and others affected know and under- stand better the aims of the Council's policy and the require- ments of the law.
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