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Buildings Department supports COMAC investigation

The Director of Buildings, Mrs Helen Yu, today (Tuesday) pledged to co- operate with the Commissioner for Administrative Complaints (COMAC) on his investigation on the Buildings Department's enforcement actions against unauthorised building works.

Commenting on COMAC's announcement to initiate the investigation, Mrs Yu said: "I have nominated my Assistant Director/Control and Enforcement, Mr Edward Lok, to be our contact officer for the COMAC investigation."

Mrs Yu pointed out that her department "regularly reviews procedures for enforcement, including clearance operations to see whether, and how, arrangements could be improved in general".

"This is a matter of good practice. In this spirit, we look forward to any improvement measures COMAC may suggest in due course," Mrs Yu said.

"Over the years, we have taken COMAC's recommendations into account in improving our procedures. For these, we are grateful."

End/Tuesday, January 3, 1995

DCA updates LegCo panel on Hercules accident

The Director of Civil Aviation, Mr Peter Lok, today (Tuesday) reiterated that the Hercules planes used to repatriate Vietnamese migrants from Hong Kong were authorised for the carriage of passengers.

He was updating a meeting of members of the Legislative Council Economic Services Panel regarding the aircraft accident which occurred at the Hong Kong International Airport on September 23 last year involving a Hercules L-382 operated by Pelita Air Service on a non-passenger carrying flight.

Mr Lok stated that the Indonesian authorities had authorised the Lockheed type L-382 Hercules to be used to carry passengers since the early 1980s. The 1982/83 issue of the authoritative reference book "Jane's All the World's Aircraft " testified to

this.