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MR. YEUNG:

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Government's expense if it is considered that

case is serious enough.

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Apart from the reasons given to us earlier

by the Secretary for Transport, I would be grateful

if he could also answer the second part of my

earlier question

which is

whether

the relatively low number of prosecutions is the

result of the complainants failing or unwilling to

appear as court witnesses?

SECRETARY

FOR

TRANSPORT:

Sir, yes, a number of prosecutions were not able

to be pursued because the complainants were not

willing to come forward as witnesses.

Therefore,

because of this a new procedure was in fact

introduced in May this year whereby when a complaint

to the Transport Complaints Unit, the

is

made

complainant will be asked whether he would

be willing to be a witness in court. If

he is willing, we will arrange for the police

to contact him either at his home, his office or

the nearest police

station.

number of

bring the prosecutions up.

This I hope will