The government has reduced the criminal record barriers for people wanting to work as cabbies, according to the final version of its taxi sector bill whose revision was completed by a standing committee of the Legislative Assembly (AL) yesterday.
For instance, the bill no longer states that conviction for a terrorism-related crime is a barrier to work as a taxi driver.
Vong briefed the media after a closed-door meeting of his committee which finished reviewing a government-initiated bill regulating the city’s taxi sector yesterday, the outline of which was passed during a plenary session in April last year.
The legislature’s 3rd Standing Committee President Vong Hin Fai addresses yesterday’s press briefing about the government’s taxi sector bill. Courtesy: TDM
