LegCo Paper No. CB(1)1605/95-96
Ref : CB1/BC/38/95/2

Bills Committee on
Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Amendment) Bill 1996

Minutes of Meeting
held on Friday, 7 June 1996 at 2:15 p.m.
in Conference Room B of the Legislative Council Building

Members Present :

    Hon Edward HO Sing-tin, OBE, JP (Convenor)
    Hon Ronald ARCULLI, OBE, JP
    Hon CHAN Yuen-han
    Hon Lawrence YUM Sin-ling

Members Absent :

    Dr Hon Edward LEONG Che-hung, OBE, JP
    Hon LEE Cheuk-yan

Staff in Attendance :

    Miss Polly YEUNG, CAS(1)3
    Ms Connie SZE-TO, SAS(1)5

I. Election of Chairman

Hon Edward HO Sing-tin and Hon Ronald ARCULLI were elected Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Bills Committee respectively.

II. Date of subsequent meetings

Members went through the Eight-Weekly Forecast of Activities and in particular, the schedule of meetings for June 1996. They agreed that three further meetings would be scheduled as follows:

  1. Tuesday, 25 June 1996 at 2:30 p.m.
  2. Thursday, 27 June 1996 at 8:30 a.m.
  3. Monday, 1 July 1996 at 2:30 p.m.

Members noted that the Hong Kong Construction Association had written to request a meeting with the Bills Committee to present its views.

Members present at the meeting also agreed to approach the following associations to see whether they were interested to meet the Bills Committee at its next meeting on 25 June 1996 :

  1. The Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong
  2. The Hong Kong Institute of Architects
  3. The Hong Kong Institute of Engineers
  4. The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors

(Post-meeting note: With the concurrence of the Chairman, the Bills Committee would also meet with Hong Kong Construction Industry Employees General Union, Hong Kong Construction Safety Management Association and the Administration at the meeting on 25 June 1996.)

The meeting ended at 2:25 p.m.

LegCo Secretariat
14 June 1996

Last Updated on 11 December 1998