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.

     The Government announced today (June 19) the re-appointment of senior executives of the Insurance Authority (IA).
 
     The Chief Executive has re-appointed Mr Simon Lam Sui-kong as Executive Director, General Business (ED(GB)) of the IA for a term of three years from June 19, 2020, to June 18, 2023, and Ms Carol Hui Mei-ying as Executive Director, Long Term Business (ED(LTB)) of the IA for a term of three years from June 26, 2020, to June 25, 2023. 
 
     The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Mr Christopher Hui, said, "Mr Lam and Ms Hui have made valuable contributions to the work of the IA over the past three years. I look forward to their continued service to the IA in the new term to facilitate the healthy and sustainable development of the insurance market in Hong Kong."
 
     Mr Lam was first appointed as ED(GB) in June 2017. He assumed management responsibility of the General Business Division of the IA, including the supervision of the non-life insurance market and the authorisation of non-life insurers.
 
     Ms Hui took up the position of ED(LTB) in June 2017. She assumed management responsibility of the Long Term Business Division of the IA, including the supervision of the life insurance market and the authorisation of life insurers.
 
     The IA is an independent insurance regulator established under the Insurance Ordinance (Cap. 41) in December 2015. It took over the responsibility of supervising insurance companies from the former Office of the Commissioner of Insurance in June 2017 and assumed direct regulation of insurance intermediaries in September 2019.