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As I mentioned in my speech earlier, even in the sales promotion of range hoods, a salesman was prosecuted for exaggerating their spinning speed; besides, dried seafood shops may be charged for displaying unclear tags of price per catty; vegetable vendors who are found tampering with their scales may be prosecuted; supermarkets may also be prosecuted for displaying unclear price tags or providing inaccurate descriptions of their products; and vendors of food, drugs and various other things may also be prosecuted.

Speaking of cheating, President, the Green Sense has published the findings of another survey recently, pointing out that since the exemption of prefabricated external walls from the calculation of gross floor area in 2006, almost all prefabricated external walls of housing estates completed after 2006 are found to be thicker, reaching a thickness of 30cm and causing the percentage of prefabricated external walls in the floor area to increase from 1% in the past to the present 4.6%.

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In the supplementary information provided to the Advisory Committee, the Secretary-General states that one of the lessons learned with regard to compliance missions was that, irrespective of the professional competence of the individual compliance officers, when dealing with Chief Security Officers at the P-5 or senior P-4 levels or debriefing designated officials at the level of D-2 or above, a P-3 compliance officer has neither the seniority nor the field experience to be credible.

For example, an old lady hauling a stack of cardboards to the recycler for sale may be prosecuted for the increased weight of the cardboards probably because the cardboards are wet; a vegetable vendor in a market may be prosecuted for deceiving customers by fiddling with the scale; and another example was cited earlier about a salesperson selling range hoods being prosecuted and imprisoned.

Actually, purchases in the market are now regulated by the Trade Descriptions Ordinance to prevent unscrupulous businessmen from adopting deceptive trade practices.

We often raise one question: Vendors in the market violating the Weights and Measures Ordinance are subject to criminal prosecution, but why are property developers selling "inflated flats" not bound by the law?

I also said last week that from a psychological point of view, the Secretary is so rich, I just cannot believe that he has any intention to cheat.

Think about this: When buying a residential property, the public may often have to spend their life savings on it. If they fall prey to deceptive practices, being cheated in that they have bought a flat with inflated saleable area and inconsistencies with the descriptions, their life savings would be thrown down the drain.

Many Honourable colleagues have mentioned just now that even for vendors of roasted meat, pork, dried seafood, gold or jade articles of jewellery, if they have tampered with their scales or made false or misleading representation, they will be prosecuted by the Customs and Exercise Department under the Weights and Measures Ordinance or the Trade Descriptions Ordinance.