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needs further thought./

(a)

(e)

(£)

British Council have reduced their requirements resulting in a space saving of 320m2 approximately which should be adequate for Procurement Unit

(paras 5L, 9 and 17).

HK Coordinating Committee are keen to utilise the hoardings around the site for publicity purposes

(para 15a).

Position of British Chamber of Commerce's occupation of the building still not settled (para 15b).

Recommendations and Follow-up action

3.

(a) Convene meeting of HK Steering Committee to on pre-update them on present situation.

(b) Clarify Security Dept, TSD and ISD's

detailed requirements for working drawings e.g. security doors, access controls, Public Address and telephone systems and clean power supply requirements (paras 6 and 16e).

(c)

(d)

(e)

Establish whether the British Council will be exempt from the full requirements of Ordinance 279 on the grounds that they only teach one-subject (para 7).

Forward "clean" sets of the draft FSDs to BTC (Mr Jarvis) and British Council (Mr Reading and Mr Buchanan) (para 8).

Arrange suitable dates for presentation of FSDS (paras 8 and 14).

(£) Establish HK Co ordinating Committee's

proposals for site hoardings (para 15a).

Action

HK Dept.

Mr Smith/ Mr Whittle

Mr

Whittle(in liaison with Swire)

Mr

Whittle(in liaison with Farrell).

Mr Whittle

(in liaison with

Farrell/BTC/ Hong Kong Dept).

Mr Jarvis BTC

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