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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

SCHEME OF CONTROL FOR THE ELECTRIC FOWER COMPANIES

Introduction

On 17th November 1964, Honourable Members considered

A. memorandum XCC(64)111 (copy at Annex A) and advised that the control

arrangements set out in that memorandum should be approved.

B

C.S. 166

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Briefly, the principles underlying the present Scheme of Control for the China Light and Power Company and the Peninsula Electric Power Company (hereafter the initials CLF will be used to mean both companies) are:

(a) a basic tariff within which CLP must work, except

to the extent of agreed increases caused by changes in the cost of plant and of equipment and in local costs. Charges may be adjusted automatically with changes in the price of fuel;

(b) a permitted return of up to 13% on "average net

assets" defined as capital investment less deprecia - tion at Inland Revenue agreed rates (which are shown in Annex B);

(c) the setting aside of the surplus, after meeting costs

including depreciation, taxes and the agreed return on average net assets, in a Development Fund used either for capital expenditure or for reducing or avoiding increases in the tariff;

(d) interest at 8% per annum on the Development Fund, the amount concerned being deducted from the per- mitted return as calculated at (b) above, and passed on to consumers in the form of a rebate;

(e) restrictions on the distribution of dividends whenever

the Development Fund amounts to a significant propor- tion of total capital investment. If at a year's end the Development Fund amounts to less than 10% of the net fixed assets of CLF, no dividend restriction applies. But if it is 10% or above, then the payout is restricted to the following percentages of earnings:

Development Fund/Assets % 10% 25%

Maximum dividend payout as a

percentage of profits

Cumulative

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35% or above

609%

50%

In any single year

7.2%

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50%