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I should like
general objectives
legislation today.
we
now to return once again to
seek to achieve in moving
the
this
with
The principal objective 1s concerned
identity; the need to establish a clear identity for Hong
Koog; and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong; and to have that identity firmly established in our own Statute law, not
to have
have it diffused in a somewhat unsatisfactory way in various Orders and Ordinances and the case law, procedures
and practices followed by a Parliament thousands of miles
away in the United Kingdom, We need to have our own law,
here, in Hong Kong.
The legislation
19 one of 8 number of practical
designed to establish this identity; this high
degree of autonomy as it has been called in another context.
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These measures have included the alternative form
of Oath endorsed earlier by this Council to enable Members
simply to swear their loyalty to the people of Hong Kong.
This change, io iis turn, removed one of the obstacles to
the introduction of electione to Deadership of this
Council. Then, to enable elections to take place, the Royal
Instructions have been amended; legislation to provide for
various types of election has been introduced and passed
into law. Arrangements are being made to вее that the