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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 15 February 1989

香港立法局 ——一九八九年二月十五日

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"golden handshakes" it is desirable and in the public interest to have the accounts of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation audited by the Director of Audit?

SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT: Sir, under the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation Ordinance the Auditor has to be approved and appointed by the Governor, and the annual accounts of the corporation are submitted to this Council through the Financial Secretary as an annual report, and tabled at this Council very year.

譚耀宗議員問:政府會否考慮按年與公營機構就發展策略及目標達成協議,以取代現時委任司級 官員參與這些公營機構的董事局,藉以加強對公營機構的監督?

SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT: Sir, I think this is a matter beyond my brief because it concerns not just the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation but also the other corporations and bodies. I believe that either the Chief Secretary or the Financial Secretary might have something to say on this.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT: Chief Secretary, do you have something to add to that?

CHIEF SECRETARY: Sir, I think that as far as independent corporations are concerned our policy is that we should establish them under a broad charter, sometimes appointed by statute, sometimes under broad policy guidelines. Those policies are approved on a general basis by the Executive Council and are conveyed by the Secretary concerned to the corporations. We then wish them to operate in a flexible way within those broad guidelines that we have set down. I think our whole policy in establishing these corporations, Sir, is to give them flexibility in terms of their financial and staff management within broad policy guidelines, and I think that the monitoring aspect is one which my friend, the Secretary for Transport, has adequately described.

鄭德健議員問:政府會否及如何促使九廣鐵路公司去檢討並加強內部行政的監管,藉以確保公帑 能夠適當地使用及良好的服務得到保證?

運輸司答:有關的政府人員已和九鐵公司聯絡,就該公司的內部行政進行檢討。我們希望透過董 事局的進一步加強,繼續加強監察以及進一步改善現有的運作條件。