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Mr. Peter C. WONG : Sir,

is the Chief

Chief Secretary completely

satisfied that service to the public is not affected?

Chief Secretary : Sir, I have not been made aware of any cases

where service to the public has been impaired by the alternate

system. If it were to come to our notice,

Saturday-off

obviously we would wish to take action to put it right.

Government and is

departments?

Mr. LEE Yu-tai : Sir, when is it practised on

it practised on the part of the

it practised by the majority of Government

Chief Secretary : Sir, the system has been in operation since,

I believe, 1974. It is not really possible to give an idea as

to how many Government departments operate it because, as I

have mentioned earlier, it is done on a job by job basis rather

than on a department by

department

basis.

understanding is that probably about 45 per cent of government

But our

departments operate the system.