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The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) today (December 7) reminded the public that the Leisure Link patrons re-registration exercise will finish at the end of this month. Hong Kong residents who are Leisure Link System (LLS) patrons but are yet to join the LLS re-registration exercise are urged to seize the last opportunity to re-register their accounts quickly before the deadline so that they can continue to enjoy booking LCSD venues or cancelling bookings in a faster and easier way online.
Since the LCSD launched a seven-month LLS re-registration exercise in June this year, more than 21 000 patrons have already re-registered.
Current LLS patrons can re-register their accounts until December 31 with their Hong Kong identity card via the LLS website at w2.leisurelink.lcsd.gov.hk, by fax, by post or in person at the LCSD Leisure Link Telephone Services Centre located at 5M/F, Kwun Chung Municipal Services Building, 17 Bowring Street, Jordon, Kowloon. They will be notified individually of a new registration number after completion of the re-registration and verification process. The old registration account will lapse in seven days after the activation of the new one.
If an existing LLS patron fails to re-register, his or her registration account will automatically lapse by the deadline.
In response to recommendations made by the Office of the Ombudsman to implement measures to prevent hirers from circumventing the quota restriction imposed on bookings of recreation and sports facilities using multiple types of identity proof (for example, different travel documents), the department stopped accepting identity documents other than the Hong Kong identity card for LLS registration on August 20, 2012. Furthermore, with effect from February 1 this year, the department no longer accepts the use of travel documents such as passports by Hong Kong residents for counter booking. The Leisure Link patrons re-registration exercise further prevents individuals from registering for more than one account using different identity documents.
For details of the re-registration exercise, please visit the above LLS website, or call the Leisure Link Telephone Services Centre on 2314 7702.
Ends/Sunday, December 7, 2014
Issued at HKT 11:01
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