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To: Stoctrash who wrote (24997)11/9/1997 1:02:00 PM
From: John Rieman  Read Replies (2) of 50808
 
Karaoke can be a fire hazard..............................

SaturdayÿÿNovember 8ÿÿ1997

'Give restaurants karaoke exemption'

ANGELA LI
Restaurants with karaoke should be automatically exempt from the proposed licensing scheme for karaoke establishments, provisional legislators said yesterday.

Liberal Party legislator Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee said: "Food premises with restaurant licences should be automatically exempt from applying for extra written permission. These restaurants already have to meet the fire safety requirements before being granted restaurant licences.

"It wouldn't make a restaurant more hazardous to have karaoke machines there. However, it would be very troublesome for them to apply for extra permission."

After the Top One karaoke blaze in January, which killed 17 people, the Government proposed all establishments providing karaoke facilities should be brought under the control of the licensing scheme.

All karaoke bars would have to be licensed by the two municipal councils. Food premises holding restaurant licences would need to obtain written permission endorsed on the restaurant licences.

Mrs Chow urged the Government to explore ways to avoid potential loopholes in the proposed exemption.

Principal Assistant Secretary for Security Sarah Kwok Tam Pui-yi said the Government planned to give the two municipal councils the power to license and enforce.
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