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Government: yet he sits as President
in
the
Council where those policies are discussed.
Legislative
The President
should play an impartial role. The position is, therefore,
unusual and could be avoided by the proposal that an
unofficial member should sit as President.
9.
The Governor would, as the Green Paper noted, continue
to attend the Council to deliver his annual policy address.
The Chief Secretary, Financial Secretary, Attorney General
and other senior officials would continue to speak on
Government business in the Council as they do
matters of
now.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
10. Executive Council is working satisfactorily, and there
is no significant demand for changes in either the method of
operation of the Executive Council or of the selection of
its members, or for a move towards a Ministerial system.
There is a good deal of confused public expression about
what exactly a Ministerial system is or how it might work.
It is generally accepted that models from other
constitutions are not necessarily appropriate to the Hong
Kong situation, and that Hong Kong should build on its well-tried effective system.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
11. The changes made in 1985
1985 in the methods of selecting
some members of the Legislative Council produced a larger
Council with a more widely representative membership. The
Council is working well and conducts a great deal of
substantial Government business efficiently and with
despatch. There is support in some quarters for making no
further change in 1987-88 in order to give more time for
the system to settle down and for experience to be gained
of it.
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