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Legislative Council."
The Crown however reserves the power of disallowance and the power to legislate by Order in Council for
the peace, order and good government of the Colony.
4. The names of members of Executive Council and Legislative
Council appear in the attached personalities list. There is no
elected element on either Council, mainly because the Chinese Government have made it clear that any constitutional progress
towards self-government would be unacceptable to them. However
some aspects of local government are directed by the Urban
Council, just over one-third of whose members are elected.
REFORM OF THE MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT
5. At the outset of his term of office, the Governor appointed
a firm of consultants, McKinsey & Co Ltd, to review the machinery
and planning processes of Government, and to make recommendations.
As a result the Colonial Secretariat has recently been reorganised
into six Policy and two Resource Branches. The former deal
respectively with Economic Services, Environment, Home Affairs
and Information, Housing, Security and Social Services. The
Resource Branches deal with Finance and the Civil Service.
reorganisation should speed up the process of Government.
ECONOMIC BACKGROUND
This
6. The population of Hong Kong is 4,103,500 (98% Chinese by
language and race; nearly one-half under 20 years old). The
Colony has few natural resources except its harbour. The
buoyancy of its economy depends largely on overseas trade and
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