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The traditional custom of leaving ancestral property along the male line was mainly for the purpose of retaining the surname of the clan and keeping property within the clan as women on their marriage moved to live with their husband's clan.

Until recently, it was also widely thought that making a will to bequeath land in the New Territories to a widow or an unmarried daughter would overcome the customary rule of succession by male line only.

Concerning the issue of transferring debts, since we have already ceased the operation of the old Scheme and it has been re-designed into a new Scheme, this problem should not exist any more.

However, as a full pass-through of additional wage bills to consumer prices would be unlikely, the actual impact on inflation should be milder.

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means the account maintained by HEC through which the difference between the standard cost of fuels as agreed between the Government and HEC and the actual cost of fuels to HEC (“Fuel Cost Account Adjustment”) is captured and passed on to the consumers by way of rebates or charges.

These include advising textbook publishers not to provide schools with any forms of advantages, donations, free gifts or luxurious hospitality during textbook promotion to avoid including the related costs when pricing the textbooks; issuing the "Guidelines for Printing of Textbooks" to publishers for reference and requesting them to adopt the "functional and cost-effective approach" by making use of appropriate printing methods, paper and design with low-cost features to reduce the production costs of textbooks; issuing to schools a circular memorandum on "Notes on Selection of Textbooks and Learning Materials for Use in Schools" every year; and providing guidelines on how to select suitable textbooks and help students minimize textbooks through teacher seminars.

In that regard, looking to the future, we hope that all developed countries will commit themselves to similar ambitious targets, that the cooperation mechanisms and agreements established to that end will not transfer their costs to the developing countries, and that developing countries will have the will to contribute to the increasingly ambitious global mitigation effort.

In Ethiopia’s Amhara region, where rates of child marriage are among the highest in the world, the UNFPA-supported Berhane Hewan programme follows a conditional cash transfer model by encouraging families to allow their girls to participate in the programme rather than marrying them off.

Therefore, it will only result in doctors and insurance companies becoming the real beneficiaries whereas patients who need the primary health care will still be unable to get the protection.

The State party observes in this connection that these “individual” communications dwell on the general context in which the disappearances occurred, focusing solely on the actions of the security forces and never mentioning those of the various armed groups that used criminal concealment techniques to incriminate the armed forces.

The case of Zhongshan Minea demonstrates that there are inherent costs associated with this technology (e.g., transportation, increasing density) and the long term sustainability would depend on improving the production process to reduce costs or to pass them on to consumers.

Ordinary resolutions will also be proposed at the Annual General Meeting in respect of the granting of the Issue Mandate to the Directors, in the terms set out in the notice of the Annual General Meeting, to allot, issue and deal with Shares not exceeding 20% of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of passing the relevant resolution, and adding to the Issue Mandate so granted to the Directors any Shares representing the aggregate nominal amount of the Shares repurchased by the Company after the granting of the Repurchase Mandate, at any time during the period ended on the earliest of (a) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company; (b) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by the Articles or any applicable laws to be held; and (c) the date upon which such authority is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution at a general meeting of Shareholders.

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During their visit, the Working Group found that the challenges faced by people of African descent in Portugal related mainly to their lack of recognition as a specific group in the national policy and legal framework; the lack of recognition of their positive contribution throughout history to the construction and development of the country; the lack of qualitative and quantitative disaggregated data by racial or ethnic origin; the existence of a circle of poverty, unequal access to education, public services, employment, as well as discrimination in the administration and functioning of the justice system; existence of racial profiling and police violence; underrepresentation in political and institutional decision-making processes, as well as the lack of special measures or affirmative action policies in Portugal for people of African descent or other minorities.

That this Council urges the Government to comprehensively review the West Kowloon Cultural District development project, consider the ‘software’ contents before planning the cultural facilities, extend the deadline for submission of development proposals, openly and thoroughly consult the cultural sector, professional bodies, the real estate sector, the Legislative Council, the public and relevant organizations, and uphold the ‘people-oriented’, ‘partnership’ and ‘community-driven’ principles put forward by the Culture and Heritage Commission for the West Kowloon development in formulating a development and operation plan that is open, fair and proper; and in the process of development, the Government should also facilitate a partnership between developers and the cultural sector, so as to allow the latter to participate in the planning and future operation of the facilities in the district.

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