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Question 3

Reply to question by the Hon. Mrs. Rita Fan

in LegCo on 6.2.85

Question:

With regard to the press release issued by Government in August 1984 which stated that the findings of the Working Group of the Transport Advisory Committee on CMB Maintenance would be made public, could Government inform this Council :

(a)

(b)

(c)

when will the report be made public? whether the report will be published in both English and Chinese?

when will a final decision be taken on the recommendations contained in the report?

Secretary for Transport

Sir, the Working Group forwarded its report to the Chairman of the Transport Advisory Committee on the 27th December 1984. Copies of the report were then printed, and became available in mid-January. Copies

were then sent to the China Motor Bus Company and the Government departments concerned inviting their comments. The Transport Advisory Committee is in the process of examining the report and comments.

2. A full public statement, in English and Chinese, will be made following the decision of the Governor in Council on the advice of the Transport Advisory Committee. The contents of the statement, and whether it contains the full text of the report of the Working Group, will

be for the Governor in Council to decide. I should

mention that the full report is 132 pages long, with 882 pages in its supplementary volumes.

3. The aim is to have the submission before the

Executive Council, with the TAC's recommendations, around the end of March or in early April.