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meted out to vendors who sell sushi without complying with the bacteriological standard, without taking precautions to prevent contamination, without storing them in appropriate temperature or without marking the manufacturing date. At the same time, more staff should be deployed to inspect these food premises.
Mr. Chairman, the Urban Council has always played an important role in safeguarding public health. I hope that under your excellent leadership and with the sustained effort of our colleagues, the Council will continue to play a more positive role in future.
With these remarks, I support the motion.
MR. WONG Kwok-hing (in Cantonese):-
The Council's Itinerant Hawker Licence Deletion Policy Should be Reviewed
Mr. Chairman,
Introduction
The Urban Council in its last term of office has approved the policy of elimination of 3,396 itinerant hawker licences in the urban area by 1 April 1996. An itinerant hawker licence holder who voluntarily surrenders his licence prior to that date is given the options of an ex-gratia payment of $30,000 from the Urban Council, or tenancy of a fixed pitch, or stall in Urban Council markets.
According to the latest statistics from the Urban Services Department, a total of 1,657 itinerant hawker licences were surrendered between March 1993 and November 1995. The remaining 1,741 itinerant hawker licence holders however have been demanding for a renewal of licences for hawking which is their only livelihood. A number of street traders' associations, namely the Federation of Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories Hawkers Associations, the Hong Kong and Kowloon Merchants and Hawkers Association and the Association for Betterment of Licensed Hawkers have, on various occasions, petitioned to this Council, calling for a review of the above policy and urging us to follow the practice of the Regional Council and deal with the remaining itinerant hawker licences by natural attrition.
The Council is urged to show mercy
The request made by the licensed street traders' associations is, in my view, justified and legitimate. It is therefore absolutely necessary that this Council should conduct as early as possible a full review on the policy of elimination of itinerant hawker licences.
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meted out to vendors who sell sushi without complying with the bacteriological standard, without taking precautions to prevent contamination, without storing them in appropriate temperature or without marking the manufacturing date. At the same time, more staff should be deployed to inspect these food premises.
Mr. Chairman, the Urban Council has always played an important role in safeguarding public health. I hope that under your excellent leadership and with the sustained effort of our colleagues, the Council will continue to play a more positive role in future.
With these remarks, I support the motion.
MR. WONG Kwok-hing (in Cantonese):-
The Council's Itinerant
Hawker Licence Deletion Policy Should be Reviewed
Mr. Chairman,
Introduction
The Urban Council in its last term of office has approved the policy of elimination of 3 396 itinerant hawker licences in the urban area by 1 April 1996. An itinerant hawker licence holder who voluntarily surrenders his licence prior to that date is given the options of an ex-gratia payment of $30,000 from the Urban Council, or tenancy of a fixed pitch, or stall in Urban Council markets.
According to the latest statistics from the Urban Services Department, a total of 1 657 itinerant hawker licences were surrendered between March 1993 and November 1995. The remaining 1 741 itinerant hawker licence holders however have been demanding for a renewal of licences for hawking which is their only livelihood. A number of street traders' associations, namely the Federation of Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories Hawkers Associations, the Hong Kong and Kowloon Merchants and Hawkers Association and the Association for Betterment of Licensed Hawkers have, on various occasions, petitioned to this Council, calling for a review of the above policy and urging us to follow the practice of the Regional Council and deal with the remaining itinerant hawker licences by natural attrition.
The Council is urged to show mercy
The request made by the licensed street traders' associations is, in my view, justified and legitimate. It is therefore absolutely necessary that this Council should conduct as early as possible a full review on the policy of elimination of itinerant hawker licences.
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