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application. As long as an applicant can obtain a FSC, the Department issues a license.
As to the processing time required, it depends on the time taken for an applicant to comply with fire services requirements. In general, for an activity not involving construction work, the application should be submitted 18 days before its scheduled time. For one involving construction work, the application should be submitted 42 days prior to the actual event.
Coming on to the question of public entertainment programmes held without licenses, Mr. Chairman, I do not have such information readily in hand. The staging of an activity at a public place without license will be prosecuted since one must obtain approval by the relevant authority such as the Building Department and the Fire Services Department and comply with requirements beforehand. Since June 1996, an organization has to obtain a FSC first before submitting to the Department an application for a license.
(3) Ms. GRACE AU YUK-HAR asked the following question (in Cantonese):-
(a). In the past three years, has the number of citizens who were prosecuted for littering indiscriminately increased or decreased? Please give the reasons for such a phenomenon.
(b) Has the Urban Services Department (USD) conducted any study, statistical examination and analysis on the categories of citizens who litter indiscriminately (such as their sex, age, professions and academic standards etc.), and the statistics on prosecutions taken in various districts?
(c) In the past three years, has the amount of refuse collected by the Council in the urban areas increased or decreased every year? If there is an increase, has the Department increased its manpower or resources to carry out street cleaning and refuse collection work? How are the relevant staff establishment and division of work devised?
(d) At present, how many USD staff members' duties include prosecuting persons who litter indiscriminately? How many working hours per week are spent by them to discharge such duties?
MR. JOSEPH CHAN YUEK-SUT, CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows (in Cantonese): This is a four-part question concerning litter offences. The first part of the question concerns prosecution of litter offenders in the past three years. In 1995 and 1996, the numbers of persons prosecuted for littering in public places were 12,456 and 13,344 respectively. This year up to October, 13,479 were prosecuted. These figures show a slight increase in the number of litter offenders since 1995. This increase reflects the strengthened efforts of the Department to prosecute offenders.
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application. As long as an applicant can obtûin a FSC, the Department issues a license.
As to the processing time required, it depends on the time taken for an applicant to comply with fire services requirements. In general, for an activity not involving construction work, the application should be submitted 18 days before its scheduled time. For one involving construction work, the application should be submitted 42 days prior to the actual event.
Coming on to the question of public entertainment programmes held without licenses, Mr. Chairman, I do not have such information readily in hand. The staging of an activity at a public place without license will be prosecuted since one must obtain approval by the relevant authority such as the Building Department and the Fire Services Department and comply with requirements beforehand. Since June 1996, an organization has to obtain a FSC first before submitting to the Department an application for a license.
(3) Ms. GRACE AU YUK-HAR asked the following question (in Cantonese):-
(a). In the past three years, has the number of citizens who were prosecuted for littering indiscriminately increased or decreased? Please give the reasons for such a phenomenon.
(b) Has the Urban Services Department (USD) conducted any study, statistical examination and analysis on the categories of citizens who litter indiscriminately (such as their sex, age, professions and academic standards etc.), and the statistics on prosecutions taken in various districts?
(c) In the past three years, has the amount of refuse collected by the Council in the urban areus increased or decreased every year? If there is an increase, has the Department increased its manpower or resources to carry out street cleaning and refuse collection work? How are the relevant staff establishment and division of work devised?
(d) At present, how many USD staff members' duties include prosecuting persons who litter indiscriminately? How many working hours per week are spent by them to discharge such duties?
MR. JOSEPH CHAN YUEK-SUT, CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows (in Cantonese): This is a four-part question concerning litter offences. The first part of the question concerns prosecution of litter offenders in the past three years. In 1995 and 1996, the numbers of persons prosecuted for littering in public places were 12456 and 13 344 respectively. This year up to October, 13 479 were prosecuted. These figures show a slight increase in the number of litter offenders since 1995. This increase reflects the strengthened efforts of the Department to prosecute offenders.
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