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12.
In
institutions
support of the three main constitutional
described above is the Administration,
which can be defined as the Governor, who exercises his
power as the chief executive after taking the advice of
the Executive Council, and the Civil Service. Beneath
the Governor as the chief executive the Administration
is headed by his three principal advisers: the Chief
Secretary, who, inter alia, is head of the Civil Service
and the Governor's deputy; the Financial Secretary, who
is the Governor's adviser on budgetary and fiscal policy
and economic and monetary affairs; and the Attorney
General, who is the Governor's legal adviser. These
three officials are members ex-officio of both the
Executive and Legislative Councils and, as of right,
each has direct access to the Governor.
It is under the
direction of these three principal advisers that the
Civil Service operates, through the machinery of the 12
policy and two resource branches of the Government
Secretariat and about 60 executive departments.
13.
In support of these central government
institutions, there is an
which
Boards and Committees, which
distinctive feature of the
extensive network of 387
make up an important and
make
system of consultative
government in Hong Kong. Many hundreds of citizens
serve as members of these boards and committees. Most
of them are appointed but in some
cases they are
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