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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL

'RESOLVED that the Commercial Bathhouses (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996, Food Business (Urban Council) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bylaw 1996, Frozen Confections (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996, Funeral Parlour (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996, Milk (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996, Offensive Trades (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996, Places of Amusement (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996, Swimming Pools (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996 and Undertakers of Burials (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996 be made respectively under sections 35A(5), 56B(5), 56B(5), 123A(5), 56B(5), 49A(5), 92B(5), 42A(5) and 92BA(5) of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance, Cap. 132 and the Places of Public Entertainment (Licences) (Specification of Fees) (Urban Council Area) (Repeal) Notice 1996 be made under section 7C(5) of the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance, Cap. 172.'

He said (in Cantonese):—As Chairman of the Public Health Select Committee, I rise to move the motion standing in my name.

The following amendment bylaws and notice, namely,

(i) Commercial Bathhouses (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996; (ii) Food Business (Urban Council) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bylaw 1996; (iii) Frozen Confections (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996; (iv) Funeral Parlour (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996;

(v) Milk (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996;

(vi) Offensive Trades (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996; (vii) Places of Amusement (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996; (viii) Swimming Pools (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996; and

(ix) Undertakers of Burials (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1996 made under the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance, Cap. 132;

and

(x) the Places of Public Entertainment (Licences) (Specification of Fees) (Urban Council Area) Notice 1996

made under the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance, Cap. 172, now before the Council will, when adopted, amend or repeal the obsolete parts of the legislations and notice relating to specification of licence fees and charges.

Pursuant to sections 35A, 42AA, 49A, 56B, 92BA and 123AA of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance, Cap. 132 and section 7C of the Places of Public Entertainment Ordinance, Cap. 172, which were amended in June of 1994, the Council may determine licence fees and charges and publish the new fees in the Gazette for public information without having to go through the process of making subsidiary legislation.

Since the Council made determination of fees under the new procedure on 4 July 1995 and the new fees were published in the Gazette on 28 July 1995, the

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