Date:
26.11.86
Time:
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8.30 am 12.15 pm
Reporter: CNB
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leaving Hong Kong against the tickets collected.
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We already use some of our resources to give figures to the Civil Aviation Department on the number of passengers leaving which is used as a general monitor. The reconciliation between the 6 amount which is actually collected and the amount which should have
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is true that it would be possible for the immigration officers to tear the ticket, as is being done by other staff now, but you have to consider that if this is put into the hands of Government officers, in the first place it is airline money, it is the airline's job to do this, it's the airline's responsibility by legislation, and at present the airline is responsible for the whole job. Once you get the Government involved in what is said to be a counter-check or
something or another, then we have to share with the airlines the
responsibility if anything goes wrong. Presently airlines, without question, have to reconcile the number of passengers they carry and the amount of money they collect, but if we have a Government organisation carrying out part of the check, there will obviously be a problem of determining the responsibility when things go wrong when the amount of money collected doesn't tally with the number of
passengers.
CHAIRMAN: Can I put one thing straight. I think that's tax money, that's Government's money, it's not airline's money. All $120, the Financial Secretary repeated must be 10 times, it's
tax, it's not airline's, the airline is just collecting it.
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Yes, yes, but the airline has to hand over the money to Government according to the number of passengers that leave.
CHAIRMAN: Well, we pay for that too, for the collection
DI: Yes. The airline has to pay the difference. They 36 collect so much money from the passengers and then have an amount to
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