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TUESDAY, NOVENDER 19, 1974.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CORRUPTION FORMED
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A COMMITTEE HAS BEEN SET UP TO ADVISE THE GOVERNOR AND THE COMMISSIONER AGAINST CORRUPTION ON MAJOR POLICY ASPECTS OF THE WORK OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION.
THE SEVEN-MENDER COMMITTEE, KNOWN AS THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CORRUPTION, WILL HAVE AS ITS CHAIRMAN, MR. JACK CATER, THE COMMISSIONER AGAINST CORRUPTION.
THE MEMBERS ARE SIR YUET-KEUNG KAN, DR. RAYSON HUANG, KRS. JOYCE SYMONS, KR PATRICK 5.S. YU, FR, MICHAEL CLINTON AND MR. JOHN PRENDERGAST (THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER AGAINST CORRUPTION).
THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. CLINTON IS IN HIS PERSONAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS DEPUTY COLONIAL SECRETARY. ALL APPOINTMENTS ARE FOR ONE YEAR.
IT WILL BE THE DUTY OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO ADVISE THE COMMISSIONER AGAINST CORRUPTION ON ANY ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM OF CORRUPTION IN HONG KONG, WHETHER WITHIN OR OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE.
WITH THIS IN VIEW, THE COMMITTEE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING THE POLICIES OF THE ICAC UNDER REVIEW FOR CONSIDERING THE ANNUAL ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE OF THE ICAC- AND FOR SCRUTINISING THE ICAC'S ANNUAL REPORT DEFORE ITS SUBMISSION TO THE GOVERNOR.
IT WILL ALSO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DRAWING THE GOVERNOR'S ATTENTION, AS IT CONSIDERS NECESSARY, TO ANY ASPECT OF THE WORK OF THE ICÀC OR ANY OTHER PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY IT.
THE SETTING UP OF SUCH A COMMITTEE WAS FIRST MENTIONED BY THE GOVERNOR, SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, IN HIS OPENING ADDRESS TO THE LEGISLATİVE COUNCIL ON 16TH OCTOLER. AT THE SAME TIME, SIR MURRAY ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT TWO FURTHER ADVISORY COMMITTEES, ONE DEALING WITH CORRUPTION PREVENTION AND THE OTHER WITH COMMUNITY RELATIONS. WOULD DE ESTABLISHED WHEN THE STAFF OF THESE TWO DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE ICAC HAD BEEN RECRUITED AND THEY HAD BEGUN OPERATIONS.
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