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CONFIDENTIAL #≈

AIRPORT AUTHORITY

Dr Fugles

(158)

la Mastone 412

W2/2

The role of the future Airport Authority is

basically two-fold :-

(a) to oversee the planning and implementation of

the new airport at Chek Lap Kok; and

(b) once completed, to operate the airport on

sound commercial principles and in accordance

overall government policies on civil

with

aviation.

We expect the Authority to be established in 1992. In the

meantime the Provisional Airport Authority has been set up

under the chairmanship of the Financial Secretary to take

forward the immediate work of planning and implementing the

airport project.

Considerations leading to the decision to

set up an Authority

2.

The

decision to establish a statutory Authority to

develop and manage the new airport at Chek Lap Kok was

taken after very careful consideration of the institutional

CONEIDENTIAL **

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