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On many occasions, I made
which
and the same
one criticism of the
issues.
Green Paper that is it includes too many trivial items.
I made this point in two debates in this Council (not
including today's speech)
name-dropping
and
regarding unauthorised
amendments to the election expenses
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return; of the 140,000 submissions to the Survey Office,
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these two items are touched on only in 30 submissions, so
this shows that these items should not have been included
in the Green Paper. The Government should have made
some time ago administrative decisions on these items
items at an early time
and consulted the relevant boards and committees when the
Bill was drafted. Unauthorised name-dropping will become
an offence and the penalty has been stipulated in the
Bill. IS the penalty reasonabe? Are there loopholes?
If the district boards and the municipal councils do not
have adequate chances to express their views then my mind
is not at ease over these two questions.
consent
that The Bill stipulates the prior written approval or
л
must be obtained before candidates can use the
name of any other person or organisation in support of their candidature otherwise they will be regarded
having committed an offence. The penalty is a fine of
$500 on summary conviction or a fine of $2,000 on
conviction on indictment together with a disqualification
from registration as an elector for seven years and Exem
candidate for 10
I feel that the penalty is
years.
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