A 05/06-3

Legislative Council

Agenda

Wednesday 19 October 2005 at 11:00 am

I. Tabling of Papers

Subsidiary Legislation / InstrumentsL.N. No.
1.Air Pollution Control (Vehicle Design Standards) (Emission) (Amendment) Regulation 2005165/2005
2.Construction Workers Registration (Fees) Regulation166/2005
3.Construction Workers Registration Ordinance (Commencement) Notice 2005167/2005
4.Barristers (Admission) (Amendment) Rules 2005168/2005
5.Import and Export (General) Regulations (Amendment of Seventh Schedule) (Lebanon) Notice 2005169/2005

Other Papers

1.No.3-Environment and Conservation Fund Trustee Report 2004-2005
(to be presented by Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works)

2.No.4-Annual Report of The Prince Philip Dental Hospital by its Board of Governors, and Audited Statement of Accounts and Auditor's Report for the Hospital, for the period from 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004
(to be presented by Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food)

3.No.5-Traffic Accident Victims Assistance Fund Annual Report for the year from 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005
(to be presented by Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food)

4.No.6-Annual Report 2004-05 of the Protection of Wages on Insolvency Fund Board
(to be presented by Secretary for Economic Development and Labour)

5.No.7-Electrical and Mechanical Services Trading Fund Annual Report 2004/05
(to be presented by Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works)

6.No.8 -The Legislative Council Commission Annual Report 2004-2005
(to be presented by the President)

7.No.9 -Report of changes to the approved Estimates of Expenditure approved during the first quarter of 2005-06 (Public Finance Ordinance : Section 8)
(to be presented by Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury)

8.No.10-The Land Registry Trading Fund Hong Kong Annual Report 2004-2005
(to be presented by Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands)

9.No.11 -Report by the Trustee of the Prisoners' Education Trust Fund for the period from 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005
(to be presented by Secretary for Security)

10.No.12 -Companies Registry Trading Fund Annual Report for the period from 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005
(to be presented by Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury)

11.No.13 -Construction Workers Registration Authority Annual Report 2004/05
(to be presented by Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works)

12.Report of the Subcommittee to Study Tate's Cairn Tunnel Ordinance (Replacement of Schedule) Notice 2005 and Tai Lam Tunnel and Yuen Long Approach Road Ordinance (Replacement of Schedule 1) Notice 2005
(to be presented by Hon LAU Kong-wah, Chairman of the Subcommittee, who will address the Council)

II. Questions

1. Hon Ronny TONG Ka-wah to ask: (Translation)

According to the sale and purchase agreement signed by the Government and the developer of Hunghom Peninsula, the latter must obtain the former's permission before conducting any major renovation and alteration works for the said estate. It has been reported that the Building Authority has approved the developer's second alteration plans. The approved alteration plans involve merging and converting a number of horizontally or vertically adjacent units into duplex or double duplex flats, as well as enlarging the kitchens, toilets and windows of such flats. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the details of such alteration plans, and how they differ from those submitted in the first instance;

    (b)whether the developer has submitted to the Environmental Protection Department any detailed waste management programme for such alteration works; if it has, of the details of the programme; and

    (c)whether the Lands Department has received and approved any application for lease modification from the developer, and whether the developer has been required to pay any regrant premium; if there is such a requirement, of the amount of the premium?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands

2. Hon Jeffrey LAM Kin-fung to ask: (Translation)

It has been reported that the World Bank's recent report on the global business environment points out that the licensing procedures in Hong Kong are complicated, e.g. an application for a licence to build a warehouse has to go through 22 procedures and take an average of 230 days. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council of:
    (a)the reasons for the complicated procedures and long time required for processing applications for a licence to build a warehouse, and the new measures adopted by the authorities to simplify such procedures and abolish unnecessary regulations and restrictions for the business sector, in order to tie in with the implementation of the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement and to grasp any other new opportunities;

    (b)when it will implement the composite licensing scheme, and whether the composite licences will be applicable to all trades; and

    (c)the procedures and time needed to apply for a composite licence, with examples to illustrate?
Public Officer to reply : Financial Secretary

3. Hon LAU Kong-wah to ask: (Translation)

Hikers in distress in country parks or hiking trails are unable to get in touch immediately with the rescue personnel because they are in places outside the coverage of mobile telephone service networks. In this regard, will the Government inform this Council of:
    (a)the respective numbers and locations of mobile base stations that have been and will be set up in the areas of country parks and hiking trails, as well as the coverage of the mobile telephone service networks concerned;

    (b)the locations within country parks and hiking trails which are not covered by any mobile telephone service networks, and those which are covered only by some of these service networks (please provide the details of the coverage), and whether these locations will be announced on a regular basis; if not, of the reasons for that; and

    (c)its specific solution to the problem of hikers in distress not being able to seek emergency assistance immediately, including whether it will provide additional fixed telephone emergency helplines?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology

4. Dr Hon YEUNG Sum to ask: (Translation)

Early this month, the Government indicated that it will publish The Fifth Report of the Constitutional Development Task Force after the delivery of the Policy Address. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)how the proposals in the above Report will respond to the public's requests for setting a timetable for universal suffrage, abolishing corporate votes in functional constituency elections, abolishing the appointment of members to District Councils, and significantly broadening the electorate of the Election Committee, etc;

    (b)of the concrete procedural arrangements and timetable for implementing the Report's proposals to amend the methods for selecting the Chief Executive and for forming the Legislative Council; and

    (c)how it will relay to the Central Government the aspirations of the people of Hong Kong for the expeditious implementation of democratic arrangements for electing the Chief Executive and Legislative Council Members by universal suffrage?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Constitutional Affairs

5. Hon James TIEN to ask: (Translation)

In May 2000, the Legislative Council All-Party Clean Air Alliance proposed to legislate to require motorists to switch off the engines of their vehicles while waiting. However, the Government did not accept the proposal, only indicating that it would organize publicity and educational activities to advise motorists to switch off vehicle engines while waiting. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the number of complaints received by the relevant authorities in each of the past three years about motorists not switching off vehicle engines while waiting, together with a breakdown by class of vehicles;

    (b)of the number of times staff of the Environmental Protection Department carried out operations in the past three years to advise motorists to switch off vehicle engines while waiting at the roadside, the total number of working hours spent on these operations, the total number of such advice given, and the percentage of motorists who heeded such advice by switching off vehicle engines immediately; and

    (c)whether it has assessed the overall effectiveness of such publicity and educational activities in promoting compliance by motorists of vehicles of various categories; if so, of the criteria adopted for assessment and how the assessment results compare to the intended effects of such activities; whether it will reconsider legislating to require motorists to switch off vehicle engines while waiting?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works

6. Hon TAM Heung-man to ask: (Translation)

It has been reported that after loopholes were found in the administrative management of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data and the Equal Opportunities Commission, there has been grave concern about the administrative management of statutory bodies. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council whether:
    (a)it has plans to review the administrative management of statutory bodies, or request them to conduct reviews; if it has, of the details; if not, the reasons for that;

    (b)it has put forward policy proposals to any statutory bodies to improve their administrative management or conducted relevant researches; if it has, of the details; if not, the reasons for that; and

    (c)it will consider establishing an independent body or formulating relevant policies to assist statutory bodies in conducting internal audits at regular intervals; if it will, of the time for implementation and the relevant details; if not, the reasons for that?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Home Affairs

*7. Hon Frederick FUNG to ask: (Translation)

Will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)given that the plan to construct the Central Government Complex and the new Legislative Council Building on the Tamar site was shelved indefinitely on the grounds of the Government's unfavourable financial position and the prevailing political climate, whether the authorities consider that those circumstances no longer exist;

    (b)when the authorities expect to implement the plan; whether the design and requirements of the plan will be different from the original ones; if so, of the differences; whether the authorities will consult the public on the plan and consider other alternative sites; and the details of the construction cost of the whole project and the job opportunities thus created for the construction and related industries; and

    (c)given that the authorities conducted the tender exercise in two stages in 2002 for selecting a contractor for the project's design-and-build contract, and five consortia were prequalified after the Stage I prequalification exercise, how the authorities will deal with the concepts and building designs collected in the prequalification exercise; and whether they will go through the remaining tendering procedures and give these consortia priority in entering the final bidding stage for the plan; if not, whether they will start afresh the prequalification procedures for the plan?
Public Officer to reply : Chief Secretary for Administration

*8. Hon Emily LAU to ask: (Translation)

This Council passed a motion at the meeting on 12 April 2000, urging the authorities to provide comprehensive and timely one-stop emergency support service to victims of sexual violence. However, RainLily, which is operated by a non-profit-making organization and is the only crisis centre providing such service in the territory, is facing closure because of the impending cessation of subsidization by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust at the end of this year. In this connection, will the Executive Authorities inform this Council:
    (a)of the measures the authorities have taken to follow up the above motion;

    (b)of the respective numbers of cases of sexual violence reported to the Police and other relevant government departments since 2003, the respective numbers of such cases they have referred to RainLily for follow-up, and the reasons for not referring the remaining cases to RainLily; and

    (c)whether the authorities will take over to provide subsidy to RainLily; if not, of the reasons for that, and, upon the closure of RainLily, whether the authorities will provide such service by other means; if not, of the reasons for that?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food

*9. Hon CHOY So-yuk to ask: (Translation)

It has been reported that when the chairman of the Co-ordination Commission of the International Olympic Committee ("IOC") inspected the competition venues in Hong Kong for equestrian events of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in mid-August this year, he emphasized the importance of territory-wide participation and creating the Olympic atmosphere. However, the atmosphere in Hong Kong to greet this event is not fervent at present. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)whether it has formulated any plans which will involve public participation in greeting the Olympic Games, such as cultural programmes and Olympic Games exhibitions, to tie in with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, thereby creating the Olympic atmosphere in Hong Kong;

    (b)given that the Beijing authorities have decided to enlist volunteers from ten groups to serve the Beijing Olympic Games, including people from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, whether the Hong Kong authorities have any plans to assist the Beijing authorities in enlisting volunteers from Hong Kong; if so, of the details of the plans; and

    (c)given that the Beijing authorities will submit the proposed Olympic torch relay route to IOC for approval at the end of this year, whether the Hong Kong authorities have discussed the relay route with the Beijing authorities; if so, whether they know if the Beijing authorities will propose to IOC that Hong Kong be a definite point on the Olympic torch relay route?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Home Affairs

*10. Hon LEUNG Yiu-chung to ask: (Translation)

Regarding the ethnic minorities (i.e. non-Chinese in ethnicity) who are Hong Kong permanent residents, will the Government inform this Council whether, in the past three years:
    (a)it has surveyed their employment situation; if so, of the size of the working population among the ethnic minorities, their unemployment and under-employment rates; if not, the reasons for that, and whether it will expeditiously conduct such surveys; and

    (b)the Employees Retraining Board has conducted retraining courses specially catering for the needs of the ethnic minorities; if so, of the information on such courses (including their contents, enrolment capacity, etc); if not, the reasons for that; whether it has assessed if not conducting such causes constitutes direct or indirect racial discrimination and whether it will conduct such courses in the near future?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Economic Development and Labour

*11. Hon Albert Jinghan CHENG to ask: (Translation)

It has been reported that the Hong Kong stock market saw abnormal and sharp movements on 18 August this year, with the index once dropping over 300 points during the day. The incident had aroused suspicion of market manipulation involving false prices. In the wake of the incident, some small investors published an open letter in newspapers to appeal for regulation of covered warrants (commonly known as "warrants") by the Government, and the Securities and Futures Commission and the Independent Commission Against Corruption also intervened by investigating the incident. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council whether:
    (a)it knows the reasons for the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong ("SEHK") relaxing the restrictions on the issuance of warrants in 2001 so that issuers may issue unlimited number of warrants; whether SEHK will review the merits and demerits of the relaxation and whether the market-making system will be abolished;

    (b)it knows how SEHK will prevent market manipulation by issuers, including their participation in transactions on a substantial scale, and their suppression of the prices of underlying shares before the warrants are due to expire, resulting in small investors being unable to deliver such shares upon exercise of the warrants; and

    (c)it has assessed if the practice of allowing SEHK, as the regulating body, to gain profits from charging listing fees has given rise to a conflict of interest; if assessment has been made, of the results?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury

*12. Hon LI Kwok-ying to ask: (Translation)

Some academics have proposed to establish a Hong Kong international medicine botanical garden in Wu Kau Tang to promote the development of Chinese medicine in the territory. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)whether it has studied the feasibility of the above proposal; if so, of the study results;

    (b)whether it will consult local residents and the organizations concerned on the proposal, and whether and how they may participate in the items of the proposal, including the construction of a Chinese medicine museum, an eco-tour centre, a centre for Chinese medicine treatment and the elderly, a leisure and entertainment centre, residential units, etc; and

    (c)given that the proposal involves about 100 hectares of land, whether the authorities have assessed the impact of the proposal on the ecology of the area, and how they can ensure that the proposal will be consistent with the Government's policy initiative on sustainable development?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works

*13. Hon Fred LI to ask: (Translation)

During the rehearsals of Hong Kong Disneyland ("HKD") before its opening, about 30 000 visitors were received on one single day, and many of the visitors on that day complained that they had to wait an excessively long time for the use of the various facilities there and the theme park was overcrowded. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the measures adopted by the HKD to improve crowd control;

    (b)of the expansion projects to be carried out by the HKD within the next 36 months, the implementation programme and financial arrangements for these projects, and the amount of expenditure on the works to be borne by the Government; and

    (c)of the criteria adopted by the Government, as a shareholder of the HKD, for determining the expansion projects to be supported, and whether the Government's capital injection into such projects is subject to the approval of the Finance Committee of this Council?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Economic Development and Labour

*14. Hon Albert CHAN to ask: (Translation)

Since the implementation of the Mandatory Provident Fund ("MPF") Scheme in 2000, some employers still have not made MPF contributions for their employees in accordance with the relevant legislation. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council whether:
    (a)it knows the number of complaints received by the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority ("MPFA") against employers defaulting on MPF contributions in each of the past two years;

    (b)it knows, in each of the past two years, the number of warning letters issued by MPFA to employers defaulting on MPF contributions, the number of prosecutions instituted by MPFA against employers suspected of defaulting on such contributions and the number of successful ones; and

    (c)it will adopt measures to improve the situation of employers defaulting on MPF contributions, such as increasing the powers of MPFA, stepping up prosecution action and imposing higher penalties; if so, of the details of such measures; if not, the reasons for that?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury

*15. Hon LI Fung-ying to ask: (Translation)

According to existing legislation, the Medical Council of Hong Kong ("MCHK") may exercise discretion to approve the registration of persons who possess only qualifications for practising medicine outside Hong Kong as medical practitioners with limited registration, subject to specified restrictions and conditions. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the number of such medical practitioners, classified by job nature (such as treating patients, teaching, scientific researches, etc);

    (b)whether it knows if MCHK has put in place any mechanism for monitoring the practice of such medical practitioners, such as conducting inspections; if it has, of the details of the mechanism and the number of inspections conducted in the past two years, and how breaches were followed up by MCHK;

    (c)whether it knows the respective numbers of complaints received by MCHK against such medical practitioners in each of the past two years, and the subjects of these complaints as well as the follow-up actions taken by MCHK; and

    (d)whether it has assessed the impact of medical practitioners with limited registration on the practice of registered medical practitioners; if it has, of the assessment results; if not, the reasons for that?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food

*16. Hon LEE Cheuk-yan to ask: (Translation)

Will the Government inform this Council of the current area of the park in Hong Kong Disneyland where amusement and catering facilities are provided for the use of visitors (excluding logistics area for providing support to the operation of the park and land designated for expansion and hotel use), and whether this area had been specified in the agreement signed between the Government and the Walt Disney Company in December 1999? Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Economic Development and Labour

*17. Hon TAM Heung-man to ask: (Translation)

The Government announced in July this year the establishment of a temporary Permanent Secretary post in the Chief Executive's Office for six months. The post is remunerated at D8 of the Directorate Pay Scale, with duties similar to those of the Director of the Chief Executive's Office who assumes political accountability. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)the position of the recruitment of the Director of the Chief Executive's Office;

    (b)of the respective numbers, ranks and duties of the temporary directorate posts established in various policy bureaux and government departments over the past three years; and

    (c)whether it has set up any mechanism to monitor the establishment of temporary civil service directorate posts in various policy bureaux and government departments; if it has, of the details; if not, the reasons for that?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for the Civil Service

*18. Hon James TIEN to ask: (Translation)

Regarding the utilization of resources by the Trade and Industry Department ("TID"), will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)of the number of officers who were responsible for quota administration in the TID before the lifting of quota restrictions on textiles and clothing imports in January this year, as well as the current work arrangements for these officers; and

    (b)whether it will re-consider merging the Economic and Trade Offices of the TID in major cities of the world with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council's offices located in the same cities, so as to save resources?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology

*19. Hon Albert Jinghan CHENG to ask: (Translation)

It has been reported that, in introducing and recommending individual covered warrants (commonly known as "warrants") on their programmes, hosts of business/financial programmes in the local media might have shown favouritism towards individual issuers and misled small investors. Moreover, as the market-making system is adopted in the local warrant market, market manipulation is prone to arise. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)how it prevents hosts of such business/financial programmes from showing favouritism towards individual warrant issuers and misleading small investors on their programmes;

    (b)whether it knows if the Broadcasting Authority ("BA") has investigated if hosts of such programmes have assisted issuers in manipulating the market; and

    (c)whether it knows if BA, the Independent Commission Against Corruption and Securities and Futures Commission have issued any guidelines concerning the contents of such business/financial programmes, and whether a system of declaration of interests has been established for hosts of such programmes?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology

*20. Hon Fred LI to ask: (Translation)

It has been reported that the Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong ("TIC") has recommended that, starting from 1st October this year, travel agencies may charge an administrative fee of at least $30 for each airline ticket sold to outbound travellers, on grounds that the collection of fees on behalf of other parties, such as fuel surcharge on behalf of airline operators, has increased the travel agencies' workload and financial risk. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council:
    (a)given that travel agencies have been collecting various fees on behalf of other parties, of the justifications for the TIC's recommendation to levy the administrative fee, and whether the Government has been consulted prior to the making of the recommendation;

    (b)whether it knows how the TIC arrives at the proposed rate that a minimum administrative fee of $30 should be levied on each airline ticket sold, and if the TIC has taken into account the fact that travel agencies of different sizes may incur different administrative costs;

    (c)in the light of the TIC's recommendation, whether it will invite the Competition Policy Advisory Group to investigate if such anti-competitive practices as collusive pricing exist in the travel industry; and

    (d)whether it has assessed if the TIC has given regard to the interests of both the industry stakeholders and travellers; if it has, of the assessment results, and whether it will reorganize the TIC by including lay members so as to achieve a balanced representation of the interests of the travel industry and travellers?
Public Officer to reply : Secretary for Economic Development and Labour

*For written reply.

IIA. Statements

The Fifth Report of the Constitutional Development Task Force : Chief Secretary for Administration

III. Members' Motions

  1. Proposed resolution under the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China Hon TSANG Yok-sing to move the following motion:

    RESOLVED that Rule 77 of the Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region be amended ?

      (a)by adding ─

      "(9A) Two or more Panels may, if they consider appropriate, appoint joint subcommittees to study any matter of common interest to the relevant Panels and to report to the Panels.";

      (b)in subrule (15), by repealing everything after "that Panel." and substituting "The practice and procedure of a joint subcommittee appointed by two or more Panels shall, subject to these Rules of Procedure, be determined by the relevant Panels. In any such determination, a Panel or, in the case of a joint subcommittee appointed by two or more Panels, the relevant Panels shall take into account any guidelines provided under Rule 75(8) (House Committee).".

  2. Proposed resolution under the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China

    Hon TSANG Yok-sing to move the motion in the Appendix.

  3. Facing up to the needs of people with disabilities in using transport

    Hon LEUNG Yiu-chung: (Translation)

    That this Council expresses deep regret that the government departments concerned, some statutory transport corporations, and public transport operators have failed to face up to the motions passed by this Council in the 2002-03 and 2003-04 sessions calling for improvement to transport facilities for people with disabilities and the offer of concessionary fares to them, and this Council requests the Administration to expeditiously adopt effective measures to fulfil the following demands:

      (a)following up the motions passed by this Council and a relevant motion passed by the Panel on Transport on 22 July this year, and implementing the arrangements for offering public transport half-fare concessions to people with disabilities;

      (b)pressing various public transport operators to improve their facilities so as to reduce the barriers to people with disabilities; and

      (c)allocating additional resources to expeditiously improve the Rehabus service.

    Public Officer to attend : Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works

  4. Assisting Hong Kong residents encountering problems in the Mainland

    Hon James TO: (Translation)

    That, as the number of Hong Kong people working, travelling and doing business in the Mainland has been on the rise, with increasing occasions on which they need help when encountering problems such as those relating to medical cases, law and order, commercial activities or other disputes in the Mainland, but very often cannot get proper assistance when their personal safety and property are at stake, this Council urges the Government to adopt the following measures:

      (a)enhancing the intermediary roles of the Office of the Government of HKSAR in Beijing and the Economic and Trade Office of the Government of the HKSAR in Guangdong, so as to assist Hong Kong people who need help in the Mainland;

      (b)developing communication and coordinating mechanisms with the Mainland authorities progressively, with a view to enabling Hong Kong residents to receive proper assistance and support as soon as possible when they encounter difficulties in the Mainland; and

      (c)enhancing the efforts of government departments in disseminating information to the media in order to promote Hong Kong people's understanding of the government policies, legislation and social condition in the Mainland, so as to reduce misunderstanding and enable Hong Kong people to adopt suitable measures to protect their personal rights and interests.

      Amendment to motion
      Hon Jeffrey LAM Kin-fung:       (Translation)

      To add "contacts between Hong Kong and the Mainland are increasing, and" after "That, as"; to add "on the premise of 'one country, two systems' and respect for Mainland laws" after "the Government to adopt the following measures"; to delete "enhancing the intermediary roles" after "(a)" and substitute with "exploiting more effectively the functions"; to delete "and" after "the Office of the Government of HKSAR in Beijing" and substitute with ","; to add "and other offices to be established in the Mainland, and enhancing their intermediary roles" after "the Economic and Trade Office of the Government of the HKSAR in Guangdong"; to add "more efficiently and appropriately" after "so as to"; to add "closer" after "(b) developing"; to delete "the" after "communication and coordinating mechanisms with" and substitute with "provincial/municipal governments such as that of Guangdong, and other"; to add "such" after "as soon as possible when they encounter"; and to add "as special incidents, accidents or commercial/business disputes" after "difficulties".

    Public Officer to attend : Secretary for Security

  5. That this Council do now adjourn

    Hon LAU Kong-wah: (Translation)

    That this Council do now adjourn for the purpose of debating the following issue: Toll adjustment issues of Tate's Cairn Tunnel and Route 3 (Country Park Section).

    Public Officer to attend : Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works

Clerk to the Legislative Council