Fire probe meeting registration set

Source: Hong Kong Information Services

Online reservations for the direction conference to be held on February 5 by the independent committee set up in relation to the fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po will start from 10am tomorrow.

The direction conference will be held at 10am at the City Gallery in Central, where Committee Chairman David Lok will give directions on the subsequent hearings.

The proceedings will be broadcast simultaneously in transmission areas set up on the ground floor of City Gallery and in the Lecture Theatre of the Hong Kong Central Library. A total of about 400 seats will be available for the public.

Individuals who wish to observe the direction conference are required to make an online reservation in advance through the submission of a pre-registration form from 10am tomorrow to 10am on January 25.

The Committee Secretariat will allocate seats on a first-come, first-served basis according to the system’s record of the time that the pre-registration forms are received.

Successful registrants will receive a “Confirmation of Successful Registration” issued by the Secretariat of the Committee by February 3. Each person can only pre-register once. Duplicate registrations will not be processed.

There will not be any presentation of evidence or examination of witnesses in the direction conference.