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FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1994

AMENDMENT BILL ON AIRCRAFT NOISE CONTROL

ΤΟ REQUIRE

THE GOVERNMENT HAS PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE AMENDMENTS AIRCRAFT LANDING AND TAKING OFF AT THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO CONFORM TO MORE STRINGENT AIRCRAFT NOISE STANDARDS.

THE CIVIL AVIATION DETAILS OF THE PROPOSALS ARE CONTAINED IN (AIRCRAFT NOISE) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994 GAZETTED TODAY (FRIDAY).

THE BILL WILL BE INTRODUCED INTO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THIS MONTH.

CIVIL

LATER

UNDER THE

ORDINANCE THE AVIATION

NOISE) (AIRCRAFT TAKING OFF AT THE AIRPORT MUST OPERATORS OF AIRCRAFT LANDING AND

OR OTHER DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE PRODUCE RECOGNISED CERTIFICATION,

SET DOWN IN SHOWING THAT THE AIRCRAFT COMPLIES WITH NOISE STANDARDS

ΤΟ 16 ANNEX

THR CONVENTION ON CHAPTER 2 OF

INTERNATIONAL CIVIL

AVIATION.

CHAPTER 3 OF THE

ANNEX

PRESCRIBES MORE

BY

STRINGENT STANDARDS THAN THOSE IN CHAPTER 2 WHICH, GENERALLY SPEAKING, CAN ONLY BE MET NEWER MODELS OF AIRCRAFT.

SAID THAT SOME ON A REGULAR BASIS,

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT 90 PER CENT OF THE AIRCRAFT USING THE AIRPORT, ALREADY CONFORMED TO THE HIGHER CHAPTER 3 STANDARDS.

"ENACTMENT OF THE AMENDMENT

PHASING

THE WAY

AIRCRAFT,

FOR A IN AVIATION

PAVE BILL WILL OF THE OUT

NOISIER PROGRESSIVE

TYPES OF ACCORDANCE WITH GUIDELINES ISSUED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL ORGANISATION," HE SAID.

GOVERNOR WITH POWERS CHAPTER 3 NOISE STANDARDS

SPECIFICALLY, THE BILL WILL PROVIDE THE

MEET TO PROHIBIT AIRCRAFT WHICH FAIL TO FROM LANDING AND TAKING OFF IN HONG KONG.

OR

WILL ALL

IN THE FIRST PHASE, ALL AIRCRAFT ON THE HONG KONG REGISTER OWNED, OPERATED, OR LEASED BY HONG KONG INDIVIDUALS OR COMPANIES

ΤΟ EXTENDED BE REQUIRED TO COMPLY. THE AIRCRAFT, INCLUDING FOREIGN AIRCRAFT, AT A LATER DATE.

REQUIREMENT WILL

BE

SECRETARY APPOINTED TO WHITEHEAD INQUIRY

* * * * *

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY (FRIDAY) ANNOUNCED THE APPOINTMENT THURSDAY'S OF MR ANTHONY BENNETT AS SECRETARY TO AN INQUIRY INTO LAST OPERATION IN THE WHITEHEAD DETENTION CENTRE. ALL THE SUPPORT STAFF REQUIRED.

UNTIL RECENTLY, MR BENNETT WAS STANDING COMMITTEE ON DISCIPLINED SERVICES.

MR BENNETT WILL BE GIVEN

SECRETARY

OF GENERAL

THE

/MEANWHILE, THE