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vegetables into the territory, the Departmental staff's failure to curb illegal extension of business area by food premises, food poisoning caused by the consumption of seafood kept in polluted seawater, the recent contamination of Vitasoy drinks and gambling activities carried out recently by some citizens in Council venues (parks and cooked food centres in UC Complexes). All these problems have something to do with the efficiency of the Departmental staff in enforcing the laws. I hope that the Department will step up its enforcement work and increase its manpower to ensure that the relevant legislation is worth having, to prevent lawless persons from challenging the laws, to avoid the abuse of Council venues and to safeguard public health and the citizens' right.
As a Member of the Hong Kong Stadium Board of Governors, while I am concerned about the nuisance and inconvenience caused to nearby residents by the noise generated from the Hong Kong Stadium, I, of course, hope that the Stadium, which is built to international standards, can become a multi-purpose venue, benefiting the people of Hong Kong at large. I would like to emphasize that activities held at the Stadium must abide by the laws of Hong Kong. In other words, concerts should not be held at the Stadium before the noise problem is solved. The Board of Governors is now trying hard to find a solution acceptable to the public. In the long term, I hope the Council can review, with the Government, whether the self-financing policy in managing the Stadium should be abolished, so that the Stadium, like other UC venues, can be made widely available for public use.
Finally, I would like to talk about the proposal of establishing a 'Provisional Urban Council' similar in nature to that of the Provisional Legislature for the transition in 1997. According to the section on district organisations in the Basic Law, district organisations which are not organs of political power may be established in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, to provide services in such fields as culture, recreation and environmental hygiene. As the Council's daily work is closely related to the public and is not very political in nature, it is not advisable for the Council to make changes with too much political flavour. A simple way of handling this is to go through a confirmation procedure and then the Council can continue its operation after 1997.
Mr. Chairman, with these remarks, I support the motion.
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vegetables into the territory, the Departmental staff's failure to curb illegal extension of business area by food premises, food poisoning caused by the consumption of seafood kept in polluted seawater, the recent contamination of Vitasoy drinks and gambling activities carried out recently by some citizens in Council venues (parks and cooked food centres in UC Complexes). All these problems have something to do with the efficiency of the Departmental staff in enforcing the laws. I hope that the Department will step up its enforcement work and increase its manpower to ensure that the relevant legislation is worth having, to prevent lawless persons from challenging the laws, to avoid the abuse of Council venues and to safeguard public health and the citizens' right.
As a Member of the Hong Kong Stadium-Board of Governors, while I am concerned about the nuisance and inconvenience caused to nearby residents by the noise generated from the Hong Kong Stadium, I, of course, hope that the Stadium, which is built to international standards, can become a multi-purpose venue, benefiting the people of Hong Kong at large. I would like to emphasize that activities held at the Stadium must abide by the laws of Hong Kong. In other words, concerts should not be held at the Stadium before the noise problem is solved. The Board of Governors is now trying hard to find a solution acceptable to the public. In the long term, I hope the Council can review, with the Government, whether the self-financing policy in managing the Stadium should be abolished, so that the Stadium, like other UC venues, can be made widely available for public
use.
Finally, I would like to talk about the proposal of establishing a 'Provisional Urban Council' similar in nature to that of the Provisional Legislature for the transition in 1997. According to the section on district organisations in the Basic Law, district organisations which are not organs of political power may be established in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, to provide services in such fields as culture, recreation and environmental hygiene. As the Council's daily work is closely related to the public and is not very political in nature, it is not advisable for the Council to make changes with too much political flavour. A simple way of handling this is to go through a confirmation procedure and then the Council can continue its operation after 1997.
Mr. Chairman, with these remarks, I support the motion.
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