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members of the Legislative Council are regularly called upon to represent the government position in debate and to answer questions.
Other officials may be called to attend meetings of the Council's
Standing Committees (the finance and public accounts committees) and
of the two sub-committees of the finance committee.
14.
The government officials who are members of the Legislative
Council also play an important role in introducing government
business and legislation into the Council. The participation of
officials in the workings of the Council is thus a distinctive
feature of the present relationship between the Executive and the
Legislature. While it would be possible for officials to attend
before the Legislature without being members, consideration would
need to be given to appropriate arrangements for the introduction of
government business and legislation, functions which have hitherto
been carried out only by full members of the Legislative Council.
This question is discussed in paragraphs 9-11 of Note 3 in this
series.
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