DRAFT
How the Executive Council Works
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the Governor of Every Tuesday morning at 9.30 a.m.
conference room in the Government Hong Kong steps into a
Secretariat
Albert Road.
The men
and
Building in Lower women gathered round the table form Hong Kong's Executive Council, the territory's most important policy making body.
the
During
ensuing meeting
ranging in significance
matters
matters
they will
consider
from
a
a petition by
the well being and affecting the well
livelihood
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Kong's 5 1/2 million people.
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The Council's deliberations (although not generally
its decisions)
confidential. are
This brief takes a
look
behind the closed doors of its meetings and, in so doing, separates the facts from the myths about its work.
The Members
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The size of the Executive Council is
not fixed.
the Governor's most
The Royal Instructions provide that senior official advisers (the Chief Secretary, the Commander
British
the
Forces,
the
Financial
Attorney-General)
must
be Members,
and Secretary
ex-officio, of the
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We shall
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L.P./V
Council. But the Governor has freedom beyond that
and
whom,
he appoints to how many people,
Although his appointments
are
as to
the
Council.
subject
to the
covering
is ΠΟ
recorded
approval of the Secretary of State, there
proposed appointintis
instance of the Governor's choice being overruled.