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(b)
22.
enact legislation considered by the Chief Executive to be necessary for the good government of the Hong Kong SAR; or
persistently sought to have legislation enacted or amended
in a form which was considered, by the Chief Executive, not to be conducive to the good government of the Hong Kong
SAR.
The Basic Law might also provide that, in the event that the Legislature declines to approve the Appropriation Bill, or it cannot be approved because the Legislature has already been dissolved, the Chief Executive may authorise the expenditure necessary to carry on the services of the government for a limited
period until a new Legislature has been elected.
23.
Again, however, it would seem advisable for the Basic Law
to provide for appropriate balances to the power of the Chief Executive in this regard. These might include, as now, a provision for fresh elections to the Legislature to be held within a specified time limit following dissolution. They might also include a
provision that the Chief Executive should also be required to seek re-election if the Legislature is dissolved. Such a system would tend to ensure that the power of dissolution was only exercised by the Chief Executive when absolutely necessary. On the other hand it might place too much power in the hands of an obstructive
Legislature by enabling it to force a dissolution as a
removing the Chief Executive.
24.
An alternative might be to provide the Chief Executive with
the power to dissolve the Legislature, on one occasion within his
term of office, without being required to step down himself and seek
re-election. In the event of dispute arising for a second time between the Chief Executive and the Legislature, the Chief Executive would be required either to withdraw the policy or piece of legislation to which the Legislature objected, or to step down pending the holding by the GEC of new elections to the post of Chief
Executive. Such a system would present no problems if the term of
office of the Chief Executive were to coincide with the term of office of the Legislature.
It would be less practicable,
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