A 16/17-17
Subsidiary Legislation / Instruments | L.N. No. | |
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1. | Rating (Exemption) Order 2017 | 26/2017 |
2. | Allowances to Jurors (Amendment) Order 2017 | 27/2017 |
3. | Control of Obscene and Indecent Articles (Amendment) Regulation 2017 | 28/2017 |
4. | Copyright Tribunal Rules | 29/2017 |
1. | No. 71 | - | Estimates
for the year ending 31 March 2018 General Revenue Account - Consolidated Summary of Estimates - Revenue Analysis by Head |
(to be presented by Financial Secretary)
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2. | No. 72 | - | The Lord Wilson Heritage Trust
Annual Report 2015-2016 |
(to be presented by Secretary for Home Affairs)
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3. | Report No. 12/16-17 of the House Committee on Consideration of Subsidiary Legislation and Other Instruments | ||
(to be presented by Hon Starry LEE, Chairman of the House Committee)
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4. | Report of the Bills Committee on Fire Services (Amendment) Bill 2016 | ||
(to be presented by Ir Dr Hon LO Wai-kwok, Chairman of the Bills Committee)
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(1) | whether it has approached CPG to gain an understanding of the circumstances under which the winner of a CE election will not be appointed as CE by CPG; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that;
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(2) | whether it has studied if the remarks, made by any person shortly before a CE election, that the intention of a person to run for the election is to prevent the occurrence of a constitutional crisis and that CPG only supports a particular candidate are in breach of the relevant electoral legislation and Article 22 of the Basic Law (which stipulates that no department of CPG ... may interfere in the affairs which HKSAR administers on its own in accordance with the Basic Law); if it has studied, whether it will relay the results of such a study to CPG; if so, of the means by which and the CPG officials to whom the Government will relay the results; if not, the reasons for that; and
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(3) | whether it has assessed if the aforesaid remarks have caused the public to lose confidence in the fairness of this CE election; if it has assessed and the outcome is in the affirmative, of the Government's measures to restore the confidence of the public; if the assessment outcome is in the negative, the reasons for that? |
(1) | as the Water Supplies Department has indicated that the aforesaid flooding incident was caused by leakage of water from a cracked fresh water main near South Horizons Station following its dislocation due to loosened support, and that the water main had been relocated during the time when the works of SIL were carried out, whether the authorities know the outcome of the investigation of the incident carried out by MTRCL, including whether the structure of the railway station has been affected;
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(2) | whether the authorities know if MTRCL has, in the light of the aforesaid flooding incident, examined the structural conditions of the water mains near the various railway stations along SIL, and re examined the water main alignments near the various railway stations under construction, so as to prevent the reoccurrence of flooding incidents in railway stations; given that flooding inside railway stations can cause electricity leakages, thereby endangering the safety of railway staff and passengers, whether the authorities know if MTRCL has formulated safety guidelines for handling flooding incidents inside railway stations; and
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(3) | given that as SIL is plied by unmanned trains and covers the Nam Fung Tunnel which is as long as 3.2 km, MTR staff can only provide support at the next station should an unexpected incident occur in a train passing through the tunnel, whether the authorities know if MTRCL has formulated contingency plans for handling unexpected incidents that occur in trains passing through tunnels along the various railway lines, and whether MTRCL will conduct the relevant drills? |
(1) | whether it has put in place measures to prevent candidates of the 2017 Chief Executive Election as well as their electioneering team members and advisers from divulging government confidential information to which they have/had access due to their public offices; if so, of the specific measures; if not, the reasons for that; and
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(2) | whether it has studied, where there has been such divulgence of government confidential information as mentioned in (1), which ordinance(s) and regulation(s) that the Government may invoke to hold the parties concerned responsible, as well as the penalties concerned; if so, of the details? |
(1) | of the latest progress of the works for retrofitting air-conditioning systems at the aforesaid three market cooked food centres; whether there are specific implementation schemes; if so, of the arrangements, costs, implementation schedules and anticipated completion dates of the works; if not, the reasons for that;
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(2) | according to the authorities' latest assessment, whether the aforesaid three market cooked food centres need to be closed partially or completely for the works to proceed; of the measures in place to reduce the impact of the works on the tenants; whether it will provide assistance or compensation to the tenants during the period when the works are carried out; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that; and
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(3) | whether it has reviewed the reasons for the slow progress of the air-conditioning system retrofitting works at some markets, and of the measures that may expedite the progress of the works? |
(1) | given that there is currently no internationally adopted and full-fledged regulatory approach for medical devices, whether the authorities, apart from adopting the risk-based classification rules recommended by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum and making reference to the measures and requirements implemented among the five major economies (i.e. the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Mainland China and Singapore), have made reference to the relevant practices and regulations of other overseas countries or regions when formulating the aforesaid regulatory framework; if so, of the relevant countries and regions, and the details;
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(2) | whether it has assessed the impacts to be brought about by the aforesaid regulatory framework on the business environment of the medical profession, the beauty industry and their related industries, the consumers receiving cosmetic services as well as the Hong Kong economy; if so; of the details; if not, the reasons for that; and
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(3) | whether it has studied the feasibility of adopting two separate frameworks for regulating matters (including definition, registration, sale and use) concerning medical devices and devices for cosmetic purposes; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that? |
(1) | given that in the aforesaid reply, the authorities provided the number of licensed restaurants as at 2 January 2007 and a breakdown of those restaurants by size (set out in the table below), of the relevant figures as at 2 January this year; and
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(2) | given that the authorities indicated in the aforesaid reply that they had not studied the trend of the sizes of licensed restaurants, whether the authorities conducted, in the past 10 years, (i) the relevant study and (ii) an assessment of the correlation between the sizes of licensed restaurants and operating costs, labour force as well as economic situation; if they conducted such study and assessment, of the outcome; if not, the reasons for that? |
(1) | in each of the past three years, of the manpower deployed by (i) the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department ("FEHD"), (ii) the Police and (iii) other government departments to deliver street cleaning services and take law enforcement actions against parallel trading activities at parallel trading black spots;
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(2) | of the number of parallel trading black spots last year and their locations; the respective numbers of law enforcement actions taken and Fixed Penalty Notices ("FPNs") issued, by the departments concerned at such black spots each month;
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(3) | of the respective numbers of FPNs issued by FEHD and the Police in each of the past three years to persons who had committed obstruction and cleanliness offences in public places owing to their involvement in parallel trading activities (broken down by residents of Hong Kong and the Mainland); regarding these two categories of residents, of the respective numbers of (i) persons defaulting on payment of fines and their respective percentages, (ii) overdue FPNs and their respective percentages in the total numbers of FPNs issued, and (iii) cases with overdue fines at present and the respective total amounts of fines involved;
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(4) | how the authorities serve summonses to and collect default payments from those Mainland residents who have left Hong Kong with overdue fines, and whether they will be arrested or refused entry when they enter the territory again; of the respective numbers of cases in each of the past three years in which summonses could and could not be served;
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(5) | regarding shops with repeated offences in relation to parallel trading activities (e.g. having been issued a number of FPNs within a month), whether the authorities took law enforcement actions last year which had a greater deterrent effect (e.g. instituting prosecutions by way of summons); if so, of the details;
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(6) | given that three industrial building units, which had breached the permitted uses in land leases as a result of their being converted into retail shops, were re-entered and vested in the Government by the Lands Department ("LandsD") in 2015 in accordance with law, but it is learnt that the former owners concerned have been granted relief by the Government to get back their units, of the Government's justifications for granting the relief, and whether it has assessed if such practices will undermine the deterrent effect of such type of law enforcement actions against parallel trading activities;
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(7) | in respect of the industrial building units which breached the permitted uses in land leases as a result of their being used for activities related to parallel trading, whether LandsD has commenced, since January last year, the procedure for the units to be re-entered and vested in the Government, or issued warning letters to the owners concerned; if so, of the details (including the number of industrial building units involved and dates on which the law enforcement actions were taken);
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(8) | of the details (including the numbers of cases and total amounts of fines imposed on the relevant parties) of the cases in which fire escapes were found, in each of the past three years during inspections of industrial buildings conducted by Fire Services Department personnel, to have been blocked by parallel trading-related activities;
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(9) | whether the authorities received complaints in the past three years about units other than those of industrial buildings (including residential buildings) being used for parallel trading-related activities, and whether they conducted inspections targeting such activities in those buildings; if they conducted such inspections, of the outcome;
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(10) | of (i) the number of Mainland residents who were put on the watch list of suspected parallel traders by the Immigration Department ("ImmD"), and (ii) the number of persons on the watch list who were refused entry by ImmD, in each month in each of the past three years; since the implementation of the arrangements for one-trip per-week Individual Visit Endorsements ("IVS") in April 2015, (i) of the annual average number of Hong Kong-bound trips made by Shenzhen permanent residents with such endorsements (broken down by fewer than 10 trips, 11-20 trips, 21-30 trips, 31-40 trips, 41-50 trips and 51-52 trips), (ii) whether ImmD has found cases in which Shenzhen permanent residents engaging in parallel trading activities switched to use other travel documents for gaining entry into the territory (if so, of the number), and (iii) whether ImmD or the relevant Mainland departments have put Hong Kong people on the watch list of suspected parallel traders; if so, of the number of Hong Kong people involved and the weekly average number of cross-boundary trips made by such persons; and
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(11) | whether the authorities have assessed the effectiveness of the arrangements for one-trip per-week IVS; if so, of the details; whether the Government and the relevant departments of the Mainland have separately or jointly adopted new measures to combat parallel trading activities in recent years? |
(1) | of the reasons why the authorities, when taking forward the aforesaid legislative amendment exercise, did not designate the Tuen Mun Road BBI, which by then had been commissioned for nearly three years, as a statutory no smoking area ("NSA"); and
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(2) | of the BIs across the territory which have currently not yet been designated as NSAs, and whether the authorities will extend the smoking ban to such locations; if so, of the timetable; if not, the reasons for that? |
(1) | of the following details of the requests for information disclosure made by the Government in each half-year from 2015 to 2016 to ICT companies (set out the information in a table, broken down by government department):
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(i) | total number of ICT companies involved;
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(ii) | names and types of ICT companies involved (e.g. Internet service providers ("ISP"), device producers, social media and search engines);
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(iii) | total number of requests made;
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(iv) | total number of user accounts involved;
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(v) | types of information requested for disclosure (e.g. user names, Internet Protocol addresses and contact methods) and the respective numbers of the requests concerned;
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(vi) | nature of information requested for disclosure (i.e. metadata and/or content of communication) and the respective numbers of the requests concerned;
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(vii) | reasons for making the requests (e.g. for investigation of cases, law enforcement and others) and the respective numbers of the requests concerned;
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(viii) | number of requests made under a court order;
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(ix) | number of requests acceded to; and
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(x) | reasons why the requests were not acceded to (e.g. the request not made under a court order, failure to provide appropriate legal documents, insufficient justifications, not in compliance with the policies of ICT companies, and others) and the respective numbers of the requests concerned;
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if such information cannot be provided, of the reasons for that;
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(2) | of the following details of the requests for information removal made by the Government in each half-year from 2015 to 2016 to ICT companies (set out the information in a table, broken down by government department):
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(i) | total number of ICT companies involved;
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(ii) | names and types of ICT companies involved:
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(iii) | total number of requests made;
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(iv) | volume of information requested for removal;
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(v) | types of information involved (e.g. videos, text, images) and the respective numbers of the requests concerned;
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(vi) | nature of information involved (e.g. indecent content, illegal advertisements, copyright infringement and false information) and the respective numbers of the requests concerned;
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(vii) | reasons for making the requests (e.g. for investigation of complaints, law enforcement and others);
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(viii) | number of requests made under a court order;
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(ix) | number of requests acceded to; and
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(x) | reasons why the requests were not acceded to;
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if such information cannot be provided, of the reasons for that;
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(3) | of the reasons why the number of requests for information disclosure made by the Government to Facebook has increased continuously since 2013;
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(4) | of the legal bases and considerations for the Government's making requests for information disclosure and removal to ICT companies, and set out the ordinances, internal guidelines and codes of practice concerned; and
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(5) | whether the Government has plans to improve its procedure for making the aforesaid requests and to increase the transparency of the Government's practices in this respect, e.g. (i) setting up an independent committee to review the relevant practices, (ii) drawing up guidelines for making such requests by making reference to industry-led best practices, and (iii) releasing reports on such requests made by government departments and law enforcement agencies on a half-yearly basis; if it has no such plans, of the reasons for that? |
(1) | of the respective water quality standards currently adopted by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department for swimming pools in the public swimming pool complexes under its purview, and those adopted by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department ("FEHD") for private swimming pools; if the two sets of standards are different, of the reasons for that, and whether it has plans to align the relevant standards; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that;
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(2) | of the methods and procedure adopted by the authorities for examining the water quality of the public swimming pools under their purview; the number of cases in the past three years in which the water quality concerned did not comply with the standards and the relevant details;
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(3) | whether the authorities deployed personnel in the past three years to take pool water samples from private swimming pools for examination; if so, of the details, and whether they uncovered any case in which the water quality did not comply with the standards;
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(4) | whether the authorities received in the past three years complaints about the water quality of public and private swimming pools; if so, of the contents of the complaints and the follow-up actions taken by the authorities; and
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(5) | of the criteria and procedure adopted by FEHD for instituting prosecution against the licensee of a private swimming pool the water quality of which did not comply with the standards; whether the authorities reviewed the relevant legal provisions in the past five years; if so, of the details? |
(1) | whether it knows the number of EMs serviced by each hospital cluster in the past five years;
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(2) | whether it knows the numbers of times for which (i) diagnoses and treatments and (ii) interpretation services of each type (including telephone and on-site interpretation) were provided for EM patients by each hospital cluster in each of the past five years; the respective average waiting time for such services; and
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(3) | of the details of the authorities' public health education efforts targeted at EMs (including publishing leaflets and holding talks in the languages of EMs) in the past five years; whether they will step up such efforts; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that? |
(1) | given that the construction cost of KTSP was estimated at $25 billion in 2014 and PCMO estimated after review that nearly $2 billion saving could be achieved (i.e. the lowest estimated construction cost was $23 billion), but the Home Affairs Bureau has released recently that the estimated construction cost of KTSP is about $23.8 billion in the prices of September last year and about $31.9 billion in money-of-the-day prices, i.e. a difference of $8.1 billion between the two figures with the latter exceeding the lowest estimated construction cost by $8.9 billion, whether PCMO has studied the reasons for the substantial increase in the construction cost of KTSP; if so, of the details;
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(2) | among the aforesaid 60 public works projects reviewed by PCMO, of the five projects with the largest differences between the construction costs before and after revisions;
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(3) | whether it has studied the reasons for the wrong estimations of the construction costs of those 60 public works projects; if so, of the findings, and whether they involve (i) intentional exaggeration of the cost estimates, (ii) transfer of benefits or (iii) mistakes in work;
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(4) | of the measures in place to follow up and monitor the construction progress of those 60 public works projects in order to avoid cost overruns or delays;
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(5) | given that a number of major infrastructure projects that have already commenced (e.g. the West Kowloon Cultural District, the Expansion of Hong Kong International Airport into a Three-Runway System project and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge) have experienced substantial cost overruns and delays, whether PCMO will review the construction progress of such projects one by one in order to prevent the problems of cost overruns and delays from worsening;
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(6) | given that PCMO will need to review some 300 projects in the coming two years, whether the Government (i) has assessed if PCMO has adequate financial resources and staffing to meet its needs, and (ii) has considered allocating additional resources and manpower to PCMO; if it has made such assessment and consideration, of the details; and
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(7) | whether it will extend the originally-planned three-year operation period of PCMO or upgrade it as a permanent government department dedicated to reviewing the cost estimates of all infrastructure projects that will commence in the future; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that? |
(1) | the number of complaints received from patients or their families by each public hospital in the past five years, with a breakdown by nature of complaint;
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(2) | the number of complaints received from staff members by each public hospital in the past five years, with a breakdown by nature of complaint;
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(3) | among the complaints mentioned in (1), the number of those involving medical errors; among them, the respective numbers of cases in respect of which the Hospital Authority ("HA") (i) arranged mediation and (ii) made compensation, apologies or other remedies to the patients concerned or their families after mediation, as well as the total amount of compensation paid each year;
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(4) | among the complaints mentioned in (1), the number of cases with the disputes concerned taken to court eventually and the amount of legal costs incurred by HA each year; among them, the number of cases in respect of which HA was required to pay compensation to the patients concerned or their families, and the total amount of compensation paid by HA each year;
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(5) | among the complaints mentioned in (2), the number of cases in respect of which HA arranged mediation; among them, the respective numbers of cases in respect of which HA (i) paid compensation and (ii) arranged for the transfer of the staff members concerned; the total amount of compensation paid by HA each year; and
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(6) | among the complaints mentioned in (2), the number of cases with the disputes concerned taken to court eventually and the amount of legal costs incurred by HA each year; among them, the number of cases in respect of which HA was required to pay compensation to the staff members concerned, and the total amount of compensation paid by HA each year? |
(1) | of the Belt and Road countries which at present have not granted visa-free access to SAR passport holders; whether it has plans to lobby the authorities of such countries to grant visa-free access to SAR passport holders;
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(2) | whether it knows the Belt and Road countries which at present have granted visa-free access to the People's Republic of China passport holders but not to SAR passport holders;
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(3) | of the current respective numbers of the Belt and Road countries whose nationals (i) have been granted and (ii) have not been granted visa-free access by SAR Government, and what such countries are respectively;
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(4) | whether it has plans to discuss with the authorities of the Belt and Road countries which have not signed visa abolition agreements with SAR Government on making such agreements; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that; and
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(5) | given that as some of the Belt and Road countries which have not granted visa-free access to SAR passport holders do not have consulates in Hong Kong, SAR passport holders have to go to the embassies/consulates of such countries in Mainland China to apply for visas, whether the Government will discuss with the authorities of such countries to formulate simpler visa arrangements; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that? |
(1) | whether the Government proactively investigated the aforesaid online and bus-stop advertisements in the past three years; if so, of the outcome; whether it took measures to clamp down on the placing of such advertisements; if so, of the details and effectiveness of such measures; if not, the reasons for that;
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(2) | of the measures in place to remind members of the public about the lacking of protection in using white licence cars' service, including the fact that the third party risks insurance for the vehicles concerned may have become invalid, and that such service is not subject to monitoring whereas it is the case for public transport services, and hence passengers dissatisfied with the service will have no way to lodge a complaint; and
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(3) | of the law enforcement actions taken by the Government in the past three years to clamp down on white licence cars' service; whether it will step up such law enforcement actions; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that; whether it will consider amending the legislation to raise the penalties for the relevant offences? |
(1) | whether it will conduct afresh a study on the regulation of the production, sale etc. of local organic food products, including regulation by way of legislation; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that;
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(2) | of the authorities' measures to forestall the situation where the regulatory mechanism for organic food products lags behind the development of the industry; and
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(3) | as some unscrupulous traders deceive consumers by selling non-organic food products as organic ones, whether the authorities will establish a mechanism to investigate and follow up such complaints; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that? |
(1) | of the terms of reference and membership list of the dedicated team;
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(2) | of the number of CAD officers summoned by the dedicated team to give evidence or provide information during the course of investigation;
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(3) | as the investigation findings showed that there was evidence indicating that two directorate officers of CAD had misconducted themselves, of the details of such misconduct, as well as the disciplinary actions taken against them by the authorities and the justifications thereof;
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(4) | given that one of the persons mentioned in (3) has already retired causing the civil service disciplinary mechanism inapplicable to that person, whether the authorities have, apart from recording such acts of misconduct on the personnel file of that person, taken any further follow-up actions; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that;
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(5) | of the findings of the criminal investigation undertaken by a law enforcement agency into the incidents; and
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(6) | whether the authorities will make public the investigation report of the dedicated team; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that? |
(1) | given that the MTR South Island Line is plied by unmanned trains and some MTR stations (including some stations on the South Island Line and the Kwun Tong Line Extension) have no MTR staff on duty on the platforms, of the current contingency plans formulated by the relevant government departments for handling unexpected incidents which occur on such kind of trains and in such kind of stations;
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(2) | whether it has assessed if the MTR Corporation Limited ("MTRCL") had disseminated sufficient information to passengers in a timely manner during the aforesaid incident;
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(3) | whether it knows if MTRCL has, in the light of the aforesaid incident, formulated additional contingency measures for handling unexpected incidents; if MTRCL has, of the details; if not, the reasons for that;
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(4) | how far MTRCL staff participated in large-scale emergency drills conducted by government departments in the past two years; whether duty officers of MTR stations and train captains participated in such emergency drills; if not, whether drills involving such MTR staff members will be arranged in the near future; and
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(5) | whether it has considered setting up an independent committee to review the contingency plans (including the arrangement for the timely dissemination of information to passengers) for handling unexpected incidents in large-scale transport systems; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that? |
(1) | whether it knows the respective numbers of service disruptions that have occurred, since last year, on various railway lines (except for KTLE and the South Island Line ("SIL")) that lasted for (i) not more than eight minutes, (ii) eight minutes or more but less than 31 minutes, and (iii) 31 minutes or more; among such disruptions, of the respective numbers of those caused by (iv) equipment failures, (v) human errors, (vi) passengers' misbehaviour, (vii) inclement weather and (viii) other problems; the amount of fines payable by MTRCL under the penalty mechanism and, among such fines, the amount that will be used by MTRCL this year for the provision of fare concessions to passengers ;
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(2) | whether it knows the respective numbers of service disruptions that have occurred on KTLE and SIL, since their commissioning, that lasted for (i) not more than eight minutes, (ii) eight minutes or more but less than 31 minutes, and (iii) 31 minutes or more; of the amount of fines payable by MTRCL under the penalty mechanism and, among such fines, the amount that will be used by MTRCL this year for the provision of fare concessions to passengers;
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(3) | whether it knows if MTRCL has investigated the causes of the service disruptions mentioned in (2); if MTRCL has, of the respective numbers of disruptions caused by (i) equipment failures, (ii) human errors, (iii) passengers' misbehaviour, (iv) inclement weather, (v) teething problems of new systems and (vi) other problems; if not, the reasons for that;
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(4) | whether it knows the number of times for which MTRCL has arranged, since last year, free shuttle bus services for transporting affected passengers during railway service disruptions, as well as the districts, routes and number of passengers involved in each of such arrangements;
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(5) | of the current balance of fines collected under the penalty mechanism; given that MTRCL set aside $186 million for the 10% Same-Day Second-Trip Discount promotion last year, whether the Government knows if MTRCL will benefit its passengers this year by re-introducing such promotional fare discount or through other more direct means; and
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(6) | whether it will, in order to ensure that MTRCL will replace train components on a regular basis and enhance train safety and service quality, (i) establish a more stringent penalty mechanism, e.g. by extending the scope of the penalty mechanism to cover service disruptions which last for eight minutes or more, (ii) include the accumulated total amount of fines paid as a consideration under the Fare Adjustment Mechanism, and (iii) require MTRCL to set aside a specified percentage of the operating expenses for repair and maintenance of the railway system; if so, of the details? |
(1) | of the respective numbers of persons applying for entry to Hong Kong, in each month in the past three years, under (i) GEP, (ii) ASMTP and (iii) QMAS, as well as the respective numbers and percentages of those persons whose applications were approved; whether the Government has reviewed if the relaxation of stay arrangements under those schemes has achieved the expected results; if it has reviewed, of the outcome; if not, whether it will conduct such a review in the near future; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that;
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(2) | of the number of persons applying for entry to Hong Kong under ASSG since its implementation;
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(3) | whether it knows the number of Hong Kong residents in each of the past three years who returned to Hong Kong after completion of their overseas studies; whether the Government will enrich the relevant information provided by e-Platform so as to encourage those Hong Kong residents who have become the high-end professionals that Hong Kong lacks (such as innovation and technology talents) to return to Hong Kong for career development; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that;
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(4) | whether it has taken the initiative to contact overseas students pursuing studies in Hong Kong or their relevant student associations so as to know their main concerns and aspirations in considering whether to stay in Hong Kong for career development; and
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(5) | whether it has conducted tracking studies on those persons who have come to Hong Kong under the various aforesaid schemes so as to know their periods of stay and career development in Hong Kong; if so, of the details; if not, the reasons for that? |
(1) | in respect of the medical, paediatric and geriatric wards of various acute hospitals, their respective (i) average in-patient bed occupancy rates and (ii) average numbers of nurses on duty per ward per shift (with a breakdown by rank); and
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(2) | in respect of the medical, paediatric and geriatric wards of various convalescent hospitals, their respective (i) average in-patient bed occupancy rates and (ii) average numbers of nurses on duty per ward per shift (with a breakdown by rank)? |
First Reading
Cross-boundary Movement of Physical Currency and Bearer Negotiable Instruments Bill | ||
Second Reading (Debate to be adjourned)
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Cross-boundary Movement of Physical Currency and Bearer Negotiable Instruments Bill | : | Secretary for Security
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Second Reading (Debate to resume), Committee Stage and Third Reading
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Fire Services (Amendment) Bill 2016 | : | Secretary for Security
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Secretary for Security to move Committee stage amendments
(The amendments were issued on 22 February 2017 under LC Paper No. CB(3) 364/16-17) | ||
(Debate and voting arrangements for Committee stage of the Fire Services (Amendment) Bill 2016 (issued on 28 February 2017 under LC Paper No. CB(3) 384/16-17(01))) |
1. | Proposed resolution under the Employees' Compensation Ordinance
Secretary for Labour and Welfare to move the motion in Appendix I. | |
(The motion was also issued on 9 February 2017
under LC Paper No. CB(3) 325/16-17) | ||
2. | Proposed resolution under the Pneumoconiosis and Mesothelioma (Compensation) Ordinance
Secretary for Labour and Welfare to move the motion in Appendix II. | |
(The motion was also issued on 9 February 2017
under LC Paper No. CB(3) 325/16-17) | ||
3. | Proposed resolution under the Occupational Deafness (Compensation) Ordinance
Secretary for Labour and Welfare to move the motion in Appendix III. | |
(The motion was also issued on 9 February 2017
under LC Paper No. CB(3) 325/16-17) |