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Membership Changes
34.
There are two main possibilities:
a)
that all Unofficial Members should be appointed
from the Legislative Council; and
b)
that all except say two or three should be
appointed from the Legislative Council. The two or
three exceptions who could be Unofficials or
Officials, would be appointed to the Legislative
Council, by its agreement (a form of election,
as required by the Joint Declaration).
Executive Council's Relationship with Legislative Council
The alternatives are:
35.
a)
36.
decisions of Executive Council continue to be
corporate in nature, and Secretaries (civil servants)
continue to expound upon and answer for these
policies as "government policies"; or
b)
Unofficials gradually begin to assume
responsibility for subject areas and to expound
and answer for them; Executive Council continues
to be corporate in nature and collectively responsible.
Under Option b), the Senior Official Member of
Legislative Council and the Senior Unofficial Member of
Executive Council would conveniently become the same person.
At present the former is seen as "representing" Legislative
Councillors; but as integration proceeds, he should represent
Unofficials as a whole, and the leading Unofficial (en route to
an Unofficial Chief Executive).
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