Registration for the Cash Payout Scheme will start on June 21 (Sunday). The 21 participating banks will start accepting electronic registration from 7am that day. Special arrangements have also been made so that about 1 000 bank branches and 120 post offices across the territory will be open from 9am to 5pm to facilitate the submission of registration forms.
 
​     A Government spokesman stressed that registering electronically through banks to receive the payment with a sole-name account is the fastest and most convenient, and also the quickest way to receive the payment. Internet banking users only need to provide their local contact number and choose a sole-name account to receive the payment. People who do not have an Internet banking account may register electronically at the websites of the banks by simply providing their local contact number, their bank account number for receiving the payment and the first four alphanumeric characters of their Hong Kong permanent identity card.
 
​     Payment for electronic registrations submitted through banks from June 21 to 30 will be deposited simultaneously into the sole-name bank accounts specified by registrants from around July 8. There is no need for the public to rush for registration in the first days. For electronic registrations submitted on or after July 1, registrants will receive the payment one week after registration.
 
​     Apart from one virtual bank (i.e. ZA Bank), all the participating banks will also accept registration by paper form (Form 1). People who do not opt to register online may put completed paper registration forms into drop-in boxes at banks or mail them to GPO Box No. 182020.
 
​     People who wish to receive the payment by order cheques may submit an electronic registration form at the Hongkong Post website, or put the completed paper registration form (Form 2) into a drop-in box at a post office or mail it to GPO Box No. 182020. Registrants have to collect the cheque in person later at the chosen post office by producing the notification issued by Hongkong Post and their Hong Kong permanent identity card.
 
​     The Government spokesman reminded the public that registration by paper form will be conducted in three batches according to the registrants' year of birth. The first batch (i.e. for persons born in 1955 or before) may submit the forms from June 21. Those submitting registration forms in the first two weeks will receive the payment or notification of cheque collection from July 20. There is no need to rush for registration during the first days or submit the paper forms in person. 
 
​     The Government held four briefing sessions on June 15 and 18 to explain details of the Scheme to representatives of about 600 elderly homes, residential care homes for persons with disabilities and non-governmental organisations, especially on how the elderly and people with specials needs may register for the Scheme and receive the payment, and the points to note for the organisations in providing assistance to them.
 
​     The public may visit the website of the Scheme (www.cashpayout.gov.hk) or call 18 2020 for detailed information on the Scheme.

The following is issued on behalf of the Legislative Council Secretariat:
  
     The Legislative Council (LegCo) Members visited Rhenish Church Grace School today (June 19) to follow up on a complaint case relating to the conversion works of the School.
 
     Members observed the playground, home economics room, social worker room and covered playground of the School.  Members also chatted with teaching staff to better understand the impact of shortfall in space and school facilities on student learning.
 
     The School provides primary and secondary education for students with moderate intellectual disability. To facilitate the implementation of the New Senior Secondary curriculum in special school, a deputation urged the Government to expedite the conversion works of the School.
 
     After the site visit, Members held a case conference with the Government representatives at the LegCo Complex to follow up the case.
 
     Members who participated in the visit were Dr Cheng Chung-tai (Convenor), Dr Fernando Cheung and Mr Ip Kin-yuen.

    

     A woman was fined $10,000 at the Tuen Mun Magistrates' Courts today (June 19) for contravening the Hotel and Guesthouse Accommodation Ordinance.
           
     The court heard that in July last year, officers of the Office of the Licensing Authority (OLA), the Home Affairs Department, inspected a suspected unlicensed guesthouse on Tai Fung Street in Yuen Long. During the inspection, the OLA officers posed as lodgers and successfully rented a room in the guesthouse on a daily basis.
           
     According to the OLA's records, the guesthouse did not possess a licence under the Ordinance on the day of inspection. The woman responsible for managing the premises was charged with contravening section 5(1) of the Ordinance.
           
     A department spokesman stressed that operating or managing an unlicensed guesthouse is a criminal offence and can lead to a criminal record. Upon conviction, the offender is liable to a maximum fine of $200,000 and two years' imprisonment.
                
     The spokesman appealed to anyone with information about suspected unlicensed guesthouses to report it to the OLA through the hotline (Tel: 2881 7498), by email (hadlaenq@had.gov.hk), by fax (2504 5805) using the report form downloaded from the OLA website (www.hadla.gov.hk), or through the mobile application "Hong Kong Licensed Hotels and Guesthouses".

     The Lands Department (LandsD) announced today (June 19) that a site, Tai Po Town Lot No. 243 at Ma Wo Road, Tai Po, New Territories, in the 2020-21 Land Sale Programme will be disposed of by public tender. The tender invitation for the lot will commence on June 26 and close on July 24.
            
     Tai Po Town Lot No. 243 has a site area of about 22,608 square metres and is designated for private residential purposes. The minimum gross floor area and the maximum gross floor area are 43,584 sq m and 72,640 sq m respectively.
      
     Land sale documents including the Form of Tender, the Tender Notice, the Conditions of Sale and the sale plan of the lot will be available for downloading from the LandsD website (www.landsd.gov.hk), and the sale plan will be available for distribution and inspection by the public from June 26, when the particulars of the tender will also be gazetted.

     The Lands Department announced today (June 19) that in respect of the tender for the site Lot No. 1069 in Survey District No. 3, off Anderson Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, which was awarded on May 19 to the successful tenderer, Art Champion Investment Limited (parent company: CK Asset Holdings Limited), on a 50-year land grant at a premium of $4,951,000,000, the tender amounts submitted by the unsuccessful tenderers in descending order are published on an anonymous basis as follows:

(1) $4,500,000,000
(2) $4,029,000,000
(3) $3,600,000,000
(4) $3,388,000,000
(5) $3,018,000,000
(6) $2,886,800,000
(7) $1,329,000,000
(8) $700,000,000

     The information disclosed in this press release is for information only.