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The LegCo Reporter
2004-2005
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Issue No. 26 (30 June 2005)
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At its meeting on 29 June 2005, the Legislative Council passed the following eight bills:
At the same meeting, the Council passed the following two resolutions:
The following motion with no legislative effect was also passed by the Council:
Motion on "Enhancing the regulation of commercial marketing practices", moved by Hon CHAN Kam-lam as amended by Hon James TO Kun-sun
"That, as the practice of direct marketing has become increasingly prevalent in commercial activities and has given rise to such problems as consumers receiving lots of nuisance telephone calls and obstruction of access by on-street promotional activities, and as the number of consumers' complaints about being misled or deceived by salespersons are also on the increase, in order to safeguard consumers' rights and interests, this Council urges the Government to adopt measures to enhance the regulation of commercial marketing practices, including:
| (a) | establishing a system for 'blocking promotional calls';
| | (b) | conducting a study on requiring telecommunication companies to provide customers with services to filter spam promotional calls or short messages, including defining the term 'spam';
| | (c) | requiring the departments concerned to strictly enforce the relevant legislative provisions, so as to prevent excessive nuisance to the public caused by on-street promotional activities;
| | (d) | encouraging commercial clients to simplify the provisions of their contracts with customers, so as to make the provisions more explicit and enhance their transparency;
| | (e) | exploring the provision of a cooling-off period in the contracts, so as to allow time for consumers to consider the features of the service plans and decide whether or not ultimately to accept the services; and
| | (f) | raising penalties in order to impose severe punishments against misleading or deceptive marketing behaviours."
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