TNAG-2278-FCO40-3278-Future-of-Hong-Kong-Radio-Television-Hong-Kong-Board-of-Gove-1991 — Page 84

CONFIDENTIAL

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

the RTHK Board of Governors should be responsible to the Governor for running RTHK in accordance with policies approved by the Governor in Council and embodied in legislation and the Board should comprise only non-official members. The Chairman and members of the Board should be appointed by the Governor;

RTHK should be funded by means of a one-line discretionary subvention which would take into account income generated by RTHK itself and would be subject to the voting of funds by the Legislative Council. The Policy Secretary concerned should be the Controlling Officer for the subvention;

existing civil servants in RTHK should be encouraged to bridge over to the new organization, but should also be given the option to remain as civil servants;

RTHK's output should be subject to regulation by the Broadcasting Authority in a similar way to the output of the commercial licensees;

the terms and conditions of RTHK employees in the new organization should be broadly comparable to those applicable to the civil service; and

XCC(91)142

(g)

the Chairman of the RTHK Board should be identified as soon as possible with a view to his/her holding an informal watching brief over the Administration's preparations for the establishment of the corporation particularly on the legislative, financial and staffing arrangements.

A draft Bill providing for the establishment of RTHKC is the subject of Memorandum XCC(91)143.*

*

To be read in conjunction with this memorandum