CONFIDENTIAL
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Monitoring Team. We were accommodated in offices in
the Supreme Court Building in Hong Kong [at a convenient
distance from the offices of the Assessment Office
under the Commissioner, Mr. Ian Macpherson, in another
part of the same building]. The Hong Kong Government
provided one Senior Executive Officer (Mrs. Carrie Willis)
and one Senior Personal Secretary (Miss Alice Chu)
as our staff. We wish to record our appreciation of
their efficient support.
3.
We began work on Thursday, 27th September
1984, the day after the terms of the draft agreement
on the future of Hong Kong had been announced and
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published in a White Paper which refers, in paragraph 32,
to our monitoring task.
THE MONITORING TASK
4.
Our terms of reference required us "to observe
the work of the Assessment Office in all its aspects"
and to answer four specific questions:-
(a) Has the Assessment Office "discharged its
duties" properly ?
(b) Has it accurately discharged them ?