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MY TELNO 2448 : ANNUAL REPORT TO PARLIAMENT.
THE AMENDMENTS WHICH WE WOULD SUGGEST TO THE DRAFT HANDED
TO GALSWORTHY ARE :
(A) PARAGRAPH 4. ADD THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE AFTER THE SECOND
SENTENCE : ''THEREAFTER THE HONG KONG ACT 1985 WAS ENACTED BY
PARLIAMENT.'
(B) PARAGRAPH 5. AMEND THE SECOND SENTENCE TO START : ''THE DRAFT
ORDER, TO BE MADE UNDER THE HONG KONG ACT 1985, PROVIDED FOR ANY
PERSON WHO IS
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ETC.''
(C) PARAGRAPH 9. ADD A FINAL SENTENCE: ''THE SECOND MEETING WILL
BE HELD IN PEKING IN NOVEMBER.''
(D) PARAGRAPH 11. AMEND THE FINAL CLAUSE TO READ 3 ''THERE
WAS A CONSTRUCTIVE RESPONSE FROM THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY, WHICH IS
NOW BEING STUDIED.'
(E) PARAGRAPH 14. THE LAST WORD OF THE PENULTIMATE LINE TO READ
''SOME** INSTEAD OF ''SUBSTANTIAL''.
(F) PARAGRAPH 18. FIRST SENTENCE TO READ: ''A NEW REGIONAL COUNCIL, TO COVER THE NON-URBAN AREAS AND TO PERFORM FUNCTIONS SIMILAR TO A
THESE OF THE URBAN COUNCIL, WAS PROPOSED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE
REFORMS FOR THE DISTRICT BOARDS.''
(G) PARAGRAPH 20.
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DELETE THE LAST WORD 'AND' OF THE SECOND LINE AND SUBSTITUTE
A COMMA.
(11) IN THE ELEVENTH LINE, SUBSTITUTE ''ELECTED BY ELECTORAL
COLLEGES' FOR ''ELECTED BY AN ELECTORAL COLLEGE.''
(111) AMEND THIRD SENTENCE FROM THE END TO READ : IN ADDITION A
REVIEW WAS PROMISED IN 1987 TO CONSIDER FURTHER CHANGES IN 1988.''
(H) PARAGRAPH 21. IN THE FOURTH LINE SUBSTITUTE ELECTORAL
COLLEGES FOR ''ELECTORAL COLLEGE''
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