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This draft is subject to amendment and must not be puARNER SPEECH BY
BY, HON STEPHEN CHEONG, OBE, JP LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 26.6.85
without being checked against the speech
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as delivered bøeghelguiderCouncil (Powers and Privileges) Bill 1985
Sir,
Third Reading
I wish to speak on two topics, mainly on Clause 14 (2)
and briefly on the dilemma experienced by the Unofficials in this
One columnist has episode of the Powers and Privileges Bill.
postulated that old Claune 14(2) would provide the Governor with the power to prevent LegCo from involving itself in a wide range of matters, and went on to conclude that "The Sino-British Joint Declaration, after all, was silent on the precise future relationship between the China-appointed executive and the elected legislature, Clause 14 (2) could be used to usher in complete subordination of the legislature to the executive, and to ensure that Hongkong's de facto system of bureaucratic authoritarianism extends itself indefinitely."
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Both the Bar Association Chairman and the President of the Law Society, in their last minute joint statement to the press advocated that this clause should not be passed in its present form and should preferably be dropped altogether.
We members of the Ad Hoc Group have examined with great care the argumente giving rise to this call from the leaders of the legal fraternity to drop this clause,
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