XN000022-1990-11-21 — Page 10

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1990

NO TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS

THE

TODAY

SIR PIERS JACOB, FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON

AMENDMENT (WEDNESDAY) THAT NO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL PROPOSED TO THE INLAND REVENUE ORDINANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF SPECIFIC EXEMPTIONS FOR POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS.

TOLD THE WOULD BE GRANTING

SAID

MUCH

DEPENDED

REPLYING

TO A QUESTION

BY

PETER THE HON

WONG,

SIR

PIERS

SAID IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES SUCH ORGANISATIONS MIGHT ALREADY BE EXEMPT.

HE ORGANISATION.

UPON THE

CONSTITUTION

OF

THE

"IF, FOR EXAMPLE, A POLITICAL ORGANISATION WERE CONSTITUTED A CLUB AS DEFINED IN SECTION 24(1) OF THE INLAND THEN IT MIGHT NOT BE DEEMED TO BE CARRYING PURPOSES OF THE INLAND REVENUE ORDINANCE.

AS

REVENUE ORDINANCE

FOR ON BUSINESS

THE

"AND THUS, IT WOULD NOT BE LIABLE TO PROFITS TAX,"

SIR PIERS

SAID.

PRIVATISATION OF POLICE DRIVER TRAINING IMPRACTICABLE

*

PRIVATISATION OF POLICE DRIVER TRAINING IS AT PRESENT NEITHER

THE SECURITY, PRACTICABLE NOR COST-EFFECTIVE, THE SECRETARY FOR

HON ALISTAIR ASPREY, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON J.D. MCGREGOR, MR ASPREY SAID THIS WAS THE CONCLUSION OF A DETAILED STUDY CONDUCTED BY THE POLICE ON THE POSSIBILITY OF PRIVATISING POLICE DRIVER TRAINING EARLY THIS YEAR.

TO

999

HE SAID THERE WAS A NEED TO PROVIDE SPECIALISED DRIVING

RESPOND TRAINING TO EQUIP POLICE OFFICERS TO

EMERGENCY OR CALLS, OR TO UNDERTAKE HIGH SPEED PURSUITS.

THIS TRAINING, HE SAID, REQUIRED EXPERTISE CURRENTLY NOT

AVAILABLE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

"FURTHERMORE, EVEN IF A PRIVATE COMPANY WERE TO TAKE OVER TRAINERS AS SPECIALIST POLICE DRIVER TRAINING, AFTER QUALIFYING ITS DRIVING INSTRUCTORS, THE STUDY INDICATED THAT THIS WOULD BE LIKELY COST MORE THAN THE CURRENT POLICE DRIVING SCHOOL, HE SAID.

то

MR ASPREY POINTED OUT THAT CIVILIANISATION IN OTHER AREAS

THE HOWEVER, BEING PURSUED. AND

POLICE HAD STARTED A SERIES REVIEWS TO THIS END.

WAS,

OF

/AS A

Page 10Page 11