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Speech by the Hon R G B Bridge, 032,

Secretary for Educazion & Manpower

in the Legislative Council on à March 1988

the

Education Scholarships Fund (Amendment) Bill 1988

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I move that the Education Scholarships Fund

(Amendment) Bill 1988 be read a second time.

The Education Scholarships Fund Ordinance was enacted

in 1955. It provided for the establishment and administration

of a trust fund known as the Education Scholarships Fund.

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#5 (2) (a) of the Ordinance provides for the appointment

of the Director of Education or his representative as chairman

of the Púnd Committee. It is Government's declared policy

that, wherever feasible, people other than officials should

chair Government's advisory boards and committees. The Bill

accordingly provides for people other than the Director of

Education or his representative to chair the Education

Scholarships Fund Committee.

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The Bill also provides for accounts and records

of the Education Scholarships Fund to be kept as the Director

of Accounting Services may require.

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Apart from some very old scholarships, the donors

of which cannot be traced, all donors and heads of schools

have agreed to the proposed change of chairmanship. The changes

proposed in the Bill are desirable and straightforward and

it is intended to bring them into effect as soon as the Bill

is enacted.

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Six, I move that the debate on this motion be adjourned.