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Section 2 of the Judicial Service Commission Ordinance specifies the term "judicial office" as any judicial office specified in the First Schedule to the Ordinance. The Schedule now needs to be amended to include the four new judicial offices approved by the Finance Committee on 8 July. In accordance with section 14 of the Judicial Service Ordinance, the amendments to the Schedule now require the approval of this Council by resolution.

Mr President, I beg to move.

End/Wednesday, January 11, 1995

Air traffic co-ordination in Pearl River Delta

Following is a question by the Hon Steven Poon Kwok-lim and a reply by the Secretary for Economic Services, Mr Gordon Siu, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

In the Policy Debate of the Legislative Council in October 1991, I called on the Government to discuss with China the possibility of co-operation to resolve the problem which would arise from the existence of several international airports, including that of Hong Kong, in the Pearl River area within a radius of 100 kilometres. It has been reported that efforts are being made by the Chinese authority concerned to seek to make the Zhuhai and Guangzhou airports become the airports co-ordination centre in south China. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council of the following:

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(b)

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whether Hong Kong's new airport at Chek Lap Kok will have sufficient facilities to become the airports co-ordination centre in south China;

if the answer to (a) is in the affirmative, whether the Government has suggested to the Chinese authority that Hong Kong's new airport should become the airports co-ordination centre in south China; if so, how the suggestion has been conveyed to the Chinese authority:

whether the Government has assessed the implications on the local economy arising from Hong Kong's new airport becoming the airports co-ordination centre in south China: and