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5.
and
legislation to the
the
government
The 10 official members present government proposals
draft
Council, account to
legislature on behalf of the Government for policies, and answer questions on those policies.
6.
As regards the future, one solution which has been suggested is that all appointed members should be withdrawn. from the legislature on a gradual basis. This would mean that after 1997, membership of the legislature would be confined to members chosen by direct election and/or electoral colleges and/or functional constituencies. As
officials, regards
neither the Chief Executive nor his
principal officials would be voting members, although they could appear before the legislature.
itself would thus have no equivalent of either the present appointed or official members.
7.
The legislature
This proposal might be workable, if it could be confidently assumed that the Chief Executive's policies, based as they would be on the fundamental policies of the
HKSAR set out in the Joint Declaration, could always be
expected to enjoy sufficient support in a council elected by direct, indirect or functional constituency methods. Such an assumption might be valid if the Chief Executive:
(a) were elected by the legislature
7(b) of paper II); or
(b)
the members
presented
of his
legislature for a vote of
paragraph 14 of paper II).
(see paragraph
executive to the
confidence (see
This confidence,
survive for the
however, would not necessarily
whole of the legislative session; or
(c)
chose the members of his executive from among
members of the legislature.
8.
If, however, the assumption in paragraph 7 above were not valid, and none of courses (a), (b) or (c) above were
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