ANNEX
SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS IN MR. W. V. DICKINSON'S
REPORT ON LOCAL ADMINISTRATION IN HONG KONG
The City Council
(a)
(b)
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(c)
(a)
(e)
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would have twenty-two elected, twenty nominated members, would select own chairman;
would be elected on present franchise to start, limited
to residents of urban area;
would have initially certain new non-mandatory and
non-exclusive powers
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clinics, schools, adult education,
personal welfare service, car parks;
would have wider licensing duties, and be given wide discretion in interpreting the limits of its powers;
would have significant freedom in determining its revenue (shares of rates, fees, service charges, plus grants-in-aid for schools etc. and loan-raising powers);
(f) would be consulted on appointments to key posts and could
lay down policies within which staff must work;
(g) would be subject to general control or inspection by
(h)
government (through Home Secretary) of major projects, records, bye-laws and procedures, to financial control (through approval of rates, estimates, loans and major tenders, and through audit), and to dissolution or loss
of function in case of misfeasance;
should be bi-lingual and develop the "ward system" (eventually if practical by electoral districts).
/The Tsuen Wan Authority