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TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE ASSESSMENT OFFICE
1.
of the Government,
up under the authority of the The Assessment Office has been set
It is separate from the ordinary machinery Governor of Hong Kong.
and is under the charge of a senior official, be known as the Commissioner, Assessment Office, who will report directly to the Governor.
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to
2.
assessment
The objective of the office is to provide Her Majesty's Government and Parliament, through the Governor of Hong Kong, with of opinion in Hong Kong on the an accurate analysis and draft agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of
the arrangements for the China and Her Majesty's Government, and on future of Hong Kong which it will set
out.
3.
To this end the functions of the Assessment
Office shall be
as
follows : after publication and distribution in Hong Kong by the Hong Kong Government of a White Paper containing the draft Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and Her
On its and of an invitation to Majesty's Government,
comment
contents,
the Assessment Office will :
(a) receive all views expressed on the draft Agreement in writing directly to the office, or indirectly through well established and familiar consultative channels in Hong Kong and the media;
(b) collate, summarise,
on the draft Agreement;
assess analyse and
all such views expressed
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a report which will include factual (c) submit to the Governor
an overall assessment of the summaries of all views expressed and extent of acceptance by the people of Hong Kong of the draft
agreement;
(d)
carry
out
such directions as
give to effect these purposes.
the Governor may from time
to tim