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SWB
FE/7209/C1/7
15 Dec 82
ARTICLE 44: The following functions and powers of a local CPPCC committee
shall be exercised by its plenary session:
(1) Electing the local committee chairman, vice-chairmen, secretary-general and members of the standing committee;
2) Hearing and examining the report on the work of the standing committee;
(3) Discussing and approving relevant resolutions; and
Participating in discussions on important national and local affairs and offering suggestions and criticisms.
ARTICLE 45: A local CPPCC committee at any level shall set up a standing committee to handle its affairs.
The standing committee shall be composed of the chairman of the local committee, the vice-chairmen, the secretary-general and a number of members. Candidates for the stand- ing committee shall be nominated through consultation by the participating parties, organizations, nationalities and personages from various circles in the local committee, and elected by a plenary session of the local committee.
ARTICLE 46: The standing committee of a local CPPCC committee shall exercise the following functions and powers:
(1) Convening and conducting plenary sessions of the local committee; the first plenary session of each local committee shall elect a presidium to conduct the session;
(2) Organizing efforts to fulfil the tasks as provided by the constitution of the CPPCC and implementing the decisions of a country-wide nature made by the national committee and those concerning an entire area made by a higher local committee; (3) Implementing resolutions of a plenary session of the local committee;
(4) Examining and approving, when a local committee is not in plenary session, import- ant proposals to be sent to the local people's congress at the corresponding level and its standing committee or the people's government;
(5) Appointing and removing deputy secretaries-general of the local committee upon the recommendation of the secretary-general; and
(6) Deciding on setting up and changing work organizations of the local committee and appointing and removing their leading members.
ARTICLE 47: The chairman of a local CPPCC committee at any level shall preside over the work of its standing committee. The vice-chairmen and the secretary- general shall assist the chairman in his work.
The chairman, vice-chairmen and the secretary-general shall be the participants in the chairmanship conference to attend to the important routine work of the standing committee.
ARTICLE 48: A local CPPCC committee at any level may have one or more deputy secretaries-general when necessary to assist the secretary-general in his work.
ARTICLE 49: The local committees of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government shall have a general office. The establishment of other work organizations should be decided by their standing committees according to actual local conditions and work requirements.
The establishment of work organizations for the local committees of autonomous pre- fectures, cities divided into districts, counties, autonomous counties, cities not divided into districts and municipal districts should be decided by their standing committees according to actual local conditions and work requirements.
Chapter V: Supplementary Articles
ARTICLE 50: This constitution shall be implemented following its adoption by the plenary session of the national committee of the CPPCC.