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(ii) Fiscal
(a)
(b)
to provide sufficient funds for the implementation of the programmes under (iii) below, preferably by a more progressive system of taxation, or by borrowing; to examine further the relationship between the Hong Kong Government and the banks.
(iii) Social
(a)
(b)
(c)
(a)
to give urgent attention to extending public assistance to unemployed males between 15 and 55 before
1 January 1978;
to extend Hong Kong's social security system by a scheme of extended benefits agreed to by 1 January 1978 for introduction in a series of steps by the end of 1980; by 1 January 1978 to make proposals for the improvement of housing standards on the assumption that programmes will not result in fewer people being housed;
by 1 January 1979 to have prepared a scheme for the further development of education in the early 1980s.
(iv) Institutions
(a)
(b)
(c)
(a)
(e)
(f)
to appoint members of the Legislative Council (and ultimately the Executive Council) from a progressively wider social background, particularly from the lower income groups (the first steps in this direction being taken by October 1976);
to introduce the payment of allowances to Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils; to strengthen the existing translation, secretarial and research staff of the office of the Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Council; to increase the size of the Legislative Council and consider differentiating more clearly between the functions of the Executive and Legislative Councils; to appoint to the Legislative Council a public person- ality with a close interest in industrial conditions; and to groom suitable figures from the independent trade unions for eventual service on the Council; to consider the trades union position further in the light of the Turner Report.
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