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Committee on Boating and Yachting (Dissolved)

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Meetings

Date	Agenda	Minutes of Meeting	Paper
30 November 2005	View (PDF)	View (PDF)	View (PDF)
22 September 2005	View (PDF)	View (PDF)	View
17 January 2005	View (PDF)	View (PDF)	View (PDF)
23 September 2004	View (PDF)	View (PDF)	View
14 April 2004	View (PDF)	View (PDF)	-
22 November 2002	View (PDF)	View (PDF)	-
2 May 2001	View (PDF)	View (PDF)	-
22 March 2000	-	View (PDF)	-
22 September 1999	View (PDF)	-	-
25 March 1999	-	View (PDF)	-
14 August 1997	-	-	-

Membership

General Manager/Operations	(Chairman)
Mr. Cowen CHIU (till 13 November 2006)	(Nominated by The Hong Kong Sailing Federation)
Mr. Karl C. KWOK (till 31 March 2006)	(Nominated by The Hong Kong Sailing Federation)
Mr. Keith MOWSER (till 18 March 2006)	(Nominated by The Hong Kong Sailing Federation)
Mr. Ken TRICE (till 9 January 2006)	(Nominated by The Hong Kong Sailing Federation)
Mr. Roger EASTHAM (till 31 March 2006)	(Nominated by Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club)
Director of Home Affairs or his representative	(Home Affairs Department)
Director of Leisure and Cultural Services or his representative	(Leisure & Cultural Services Department)
Director of Civil Engineering and Development or his representative	(Civil Engineering and Development Department)
Senior Marine Officer/Licensing and Port Formalities	(Marine Department)
Executive Officer/PAS & PC(2)	(Secretary)

Terms of Reference

Consistent with the need to ensure that boating and yachting are recreational pursuits which can be undertaken by the public in as safe an environment as possible, throughout the waters of Hong Kong, and in order to facilitate communications between Government and those organizations and clubs concerned, to advise the Director of Marine on all aspects of boating and yachting within Hong Kong waters having particular regard to the following:

Legislation, either extant or proposed, relating to the control of pleasure vessels and their activities
Identification of problems relating to boating and yachting and how such problems may be overcome
Ways and means of alerting the boating population of their responsibilities, i.e. by publicity, education, booklets, i.e. "Safety Afloat" and other advisory services
Ways and means of encouraging boat owners, etc. to join "bona fide" clubs and associations
Management techniques for control of mooring areas for pleasure craft so as to ensure optimum safe usage of such areas
Possible sitings for new mooring areas
Problems associated with the passage of cyclonic disturbances over or near Hong Kong as related to pleasure craft
Publicity, education, reporting of and penalties related to the pollution of local waters by pleasure boat operators
Training facilities and special classes related to certification for local masters and engineers so far as pleasure vessels are concerned
Problems or pursuits related to the use of pleasure vessels, i.e. water-skiing, skin-diving
Problems associated with boat and yacht racing in local waters

Secretary

Miss Maggie CHENG, EO/PAS & PC(2) (Tel.: 2852 4465, Fax: 2545 1535)


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