41.   The HKMC would then partially acquire the fixed rate mortgage loans from the banks participating in the pilot scheme, Ms Lok said.

42.   He said he knew nothing of the plan, although the DSB was hoping to run a limited pilot scheme later in the year.

43.   A Canadian official said a pilot scheme in British Columbia had been deemed a failure because of the high cost.

44.   Although the government has begun experimenting with bankruptcy, fears of accompanying unemployment have prevented pilot schemes being introduced on a national level.

45.   But it did not indicate if the proposal to launch pilot schemes in Shanghai and Beijing had met with general approval.

46.   Dutch Justice Minister Winnie Sorgdrager, who launches the two-year pilot scheme at Leeuwarden, said she hoped the scheme would solve over-crowding in Dutch prisons.

47.   The PBOC said banks involved in the pilot scheme would not be compelled to sell their earnings in foreign exchange to designated foreign-exchange banks.

48.   The pilot scheme will run for a year and could be extended to citizens of other countries if it is a success.

49.   There are some pilot schemes along those lines, but the physicians themselves are squabbling over the implementation.

50.   Mzimela told parliament a new pilot scheme would cover seven new penitentiaries to be financed, designed, built, maintained and operated by private companies.