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W(B)L 51-7406
(viii)
(ix)
All Official Members to be
removed from the Council
(paragraph 8 3 (3))%
Consideration to be given to
amending the Council's Standing
Orders in an attempt to end the
present anomaly whereby the
Council can discuss any subject
whatever whether or not it falls
within its purview (paragraph 8 (1) We in the Department
I do not think that we would wish to
quarrel with any of the above proposals but
certain of them have aspects on which the
may
be helpful
following comments are offered references
are to sub-paragraphs of paragraph 8 of the
memorandan) {
Clarification of Urban Council's Role:
(a) and
(L. These two sub-paragraphs
are clearly aimed at restricting the
deliberations of the Urban Council to
matters within its own sphere. When
combined with the proposal to remove
officials from the Council (sub-paragraph
(j))
the effect would be (at least in
theory) to clip the Council's wings very
substantially in this respect. One
likely result would be to encourage the
Council to take even greater advantage of
its annual conventional debate (see sub-
paragraph (m)) to attack the Government.
Adoption of these proposals would make it
that much more important to continue
attempts to broaden the basis of
representation in the Legislative Council.
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