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THE REPORT
Chapter 1 The Green Paper
"The Future Development of Representative Government in Hong Kong"
Aims of the Green Paper
1.1
The Green Paper "The Further Development of Representative Government in Hong Kong" was published on 18 July 1984. It follows from and develops on the 1980 Green Paper entitled "A pattern of District Administration in Hong Kong". In the 1980 Green Paper, it was indicated that "The Executive and Legislative Councils, the central organs of Government, have evolved, and will continue to evolve as circumstances require, within the imperatives of stability and dependability which the special circumstances of Hong Kong dictate".
1.2
When introducing the Green Paper on "The Further Development of Representative Government in Hong Kong" at the Legislative Council meeting on 18 July 1984, the Governor stated that the purpose of this Green Paper was to suggest how the central institutions in Hong Kong might be made more representative in a way which would make the Government more directly accountable to the people of Hong Kong. The main aims of the proposals were
"(a)
to develop progressly a system of government the authority for which is firmly rooted in Hong Kong, which is able to represent authoritatively the views of the people of Hong Kong, and which is more directly accountable to the people of Hong Kong;
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