Bills Committee on Undesirable Medical Advertisements
(Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2004

Meeting on Tuesday, 23 November 2004 at 4:30 pm
in the Chamber of the Legislative Council Building

Revised agenda



I.Confirmation of minutes
(4:30 pm - 4:35 pm)

LC Paper No. CB(2)230/04-05
(issued vide LC Paper No. CB(2)229/04-05 on 18 November 2004)

-Minutes of meeting on 2 November 2004

II.Meeting with deputations and the Administration
(4:35 pm - 6:20 pm)

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(01)
(attached)

-The Administration's response to issues raised by the Bills Committee at the meeting on 2 November 2004

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(02)
(attached) (Chinese version only)

-Submission from the Hong Kong Chinese Herbalists Association Ltd.

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(03)
(attached) (Chinese version only)

-Submission from the Hong Kong Chinese Prepared Medicine Traders Association Ltd.

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(04)
(attached)

-Submission from the Hong Kong Health Food Association

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(05)
(attached) (Chinese version only)

-Submission from the Modernized Chinese Medicine International Association

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(06)
(attached) (Chinese version only)

-Submission from the Direct Selling of Hong Kong Ltd.

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(07)
(attached) (Chinese version only)

-Submission from the Ocean Pharmaceutical (Hong Kong) Limited

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(08)
(attached)

-Submission from the Hong Kong Retail Management Association

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(09)
(attached)

-Submission from the Consumer Council

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(10)
(attached) (Chinese version only)

-Submission from the Hong Kong Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association Ltd.

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(11)
(attached) (Chinese version only)

-Submission from the Hong Kong YEE YEE Tong Chinese Medicine Merchants Association Ltd.

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(12)
(attached) (English version only)

-Submission from the Hong Kong Doctors Union

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(13)
(attached) (English version only)

-Submission from the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Hong Kong

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(14)
(attached) (Chinese version only)

-Submission from the Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(15)
(attached) (English version only)

-Submission from the Hong Kong Suppliers Association

LC Paper No. CB(2)259/04-05(01)
(attached) (English version only)

-Submission from the Hong Kong Medical Association

LC Paper No. CB(2)273/04-05(01)
(attached) (Chinese version only)

-Submission from the Chinese Medicine Merchants Association Ltd.

LC Paper No. CB(2)273/04-05(02)
(attached) (Chinese version only)

-Submission from the Hong Kong Society of Chinese Medicines

LC Paper No. CB(2)273/04-05(03)
(attached) (Chinese version only)

-Submission from the International General Chinese Herbalists and Medicine Professionals Association Ltd.

Hong Kong General Chamber of Pharmacy Ltd.

The Hong Kong Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry

Hong Kong Society of Practitioners of Chinese Herbal Medicine

H. K. & Kln. Chinese Medicine Merchants Association Ltd.

The Hong Kong Medicine Dealers' Guild

SIN-HUA Herbalists' and Herb Dealers' Promotion Society Ltd.

Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong Chinese Patent Medicine Manufacturer's Association Ltd.

A.S. Watson & Co Ltd - PARKnSHOP

Watson's The Chemist

The Dairy Farm Co Ltd - Mannings

Other papers received

LC Paper No. CB(2)251/04-05(16)
(attached) (English version only)

-Submission from Mr Yip Ming

LC Paper Nos. CB(2)259/04-05(02) and (03) (attached)


-Copy of a letter dated 27 October 2004 from the legal adviser to the Bills Committee to the Administration and the Administration's response

Marked-up copy of the Bill (attached)

(A list of other relevant papers previously issued is in the Appendix)

III.Date of next meeting
(6:20 pm - 6:25 pm)

IV.Any other business
(6:25 pm - 6:30 pm)



Council Business Division 2
Legislative Council Secretariat
23 November 2004

Appendix

Other relevant papers previously issued

Background information on the Bill

Ref : HWF CR 1/3231/03 Pt.8
(issued by the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau in October 2004)

-Legislative Council Brief

LC Paper No. LS3/04-05
(issued vide LC Paper No. CB(2)47/04-05 on 14.10.2004)

-Legal Service Division Report on the Bill

LC Paper No. CB(2)54/04-05(01)
(issued on 1.11.2004)

-Background paper prepared by Legislative Council Secretariat

The Bill

LC Paper No. CB(3)35/04-05
(issued on 8.10.2004)

-The Bill