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It will be short-sighted to consider the existing medical system as the Government's financial burden which must be got rid of quickly, without regard to the social, economic and historical background of Hong Kong.

(d) the Police had been too ready to lay the more serious charge of "dangerous driving" even if the driver had only committed "careless driving" in some cases.

As I have stated in the main reply, it may not be appropriate to simply adopt certain sentencing guidelines because the causes to each and every case can be very different.

The Administration or the bodies concerned should not go to the extreme by rigidly putting a ban on any advertisement that promotes formula milk, as so doing would be in violation of freedom of information.

If the Government often cites the free market as the ground and says that it cannot do anything, the executive-led strong Government that we talk about these days will all turn out to be empty talk.

To sum up, the main result of Alexander II’s reform was to give Russian a slight taste of freedom and responsibility and to make them even more aware than before of the very limited nature of the reforms and the contained lack of real freedom.

(1) Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or the breach,termination orinvalidity thereof, during or after the Term, including in relation to the determination of the amount of any Residual Stranded Costs under clause 8 but excluding any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating to deductions or adjustments specified in clause 4(3), any adjustment to the Basic Tariff Rate or any reviews to be conducted pursuant to Schedule 3, shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules as at present in force.

The simple fact is thatno one, so far, has defined the problem and produced any supporting evidence to show its magnitude.

The Government has always spent huge administrative costs for the collection of estate duty, and its cost-effectiveness is really low; litigation between the Government and the inheritors often takes eight to 10 years to complete, even for a successful case, the tax collected often cannot offset the administrative costs involved, resulting in a waste of public funds.

However, if what a utility company under franchise cares about is only profit-making, fare increases, scrapping loss-incurring or less lucrative bus routes at the expense of public interests without even bothering to find out the reasons for losing money and make improvement, and frequently resorting to the Profit Control Scheme as its trump card to scare people off, I cannot help from asking: Is this the proper conduct expected of a responsible public service company?

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These measures aim to reduce the accident risks of inexperienced drivers by sharpening their awareness and reducing their exposure to high-risk situations.

However, with respect to expanding the scope of legal aid services, we must be mindful of the needs in society and the effective use of social resources, so that such services will not be abused and that people will not resort recklessly to litigation as a means to solve disputes, thereby exerting pressure on the judicial system and the related resources.

These measures (one dealing with the re-alignment of incremental date under certain conditions and the other dealing with those disciplined grades whose pay scales provide for incremental jump) ensure that the pay of more junior civil servants would not overtake that of their seniors immediately upon implementation of the revised starting salaries or in subsequent years.

The Government wants to punish Members who resign, the reason is that they resign arbitrarily, frequently or repeatedly, leading to a waste of public money.

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We should not readily lay our blame on society, in fact, we also have to make efforts.

I can sum up the situation with these words: the weak are bullied by the powerful and the people have nowhere to turn to as the Government does a lousy job in regulation.

The “true and fair override” provisions will cater for the evolving nature of accounting reporting requirements. They would negate attempts to find ways around the standards or the law to avoid inclusion of vehicles, such as special purpose entities and other off-balance sheet non-subsidiaries, into the group accounts

The Bills Committee is advised by the Administration that the “true and fair view override” provisions will help cater for the evolving nature of accounting reporting requirements.

However, in proposing this amendment today, I actually want to consider whether consideration from the tourism angle can be made in the context of districts, that is, from the angle of worms in the local area ― the term "worms" is not derogatory, and it is simply used to denote familiarity with the local area, that is, the worms know the area inside out.

But we can see that today, he simply keeps talking about the need for obtaining final approval from Beijing, about the necessity of getting the agreement of two thirds of Legislative Council Members, and about how nothing can be achieved without all this.

However, if we easilyregard public officers as criminals and regard their community service as a means to gain interest, and hence impose various guidelines or controls, people who really intend to serve the community would be discouraged to do so for fear that they would be wrongly accused, and people who have been silently serving the community would be greatly frustrated.