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Question No. 6

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Reply by Mr P. Jacobs,

Secretary for Economic Services,

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a question by the Hon Andrew So OBE in Legislative Council on 6 February 1985

Question: Could Government inform this Council

(a)

(b)

(c)

how many public utilities are currently under a scheme of control and when will the present control schemes terminate?

how many public utilities are not yet under a scheme of control and why not?

are there plans to bring more public utilities under schemes of control?

Reply:

Sir,

In answer to the first part of Mr So's

question, scheme of control agreements have been entered

into with seven companies and their associates in relation

to the public utility services that they provide. The

companies involved are named and the effective periods of

the schemes of control are set out in the relevant

agreements, the publication of which Members will remember

welcoming in this Council on 24 November 1982 on the

motion of Mr So.

/2.

As to the