PERSONS HOLDING OFFICIAL RANK WITH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, TH
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BRANT MSH OR THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT, BEARING IN MIND IN PARTICULAR AFFECT (SIC) THE PSYCHE OF THIS COMMUNITY AT A TIME OF CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN THE RUNUP TO 1997.
GOVERNOR :
MR CHAM, THAT QUESTION DOESN'T SEEM TO RELATE TO THE ORIGINAL QUEST MON. COULD YOU REPHRASE IT IN A FORM THAT RELATES TO THE
ORIGINAL QUEST-HON?
MR JACKIE CHAN :
*N JUST WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHETHER THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD HAVE THE
SENSITIVE NATURE IN THE CASE OF POLITICAL FORCE ATTRIBUTED TO PERSONS
OF HONG KONG.
GOVERNOR
*** THINK MR CHAN THAT IS A SEPARATE QUEST HON. AND IF YOU WASH TO PURSUE HT AS A SEPARATE QUESTION, IT OUGHT TO BE PUT DOWN AS A
SEPARATE QUESTION.
MR MARTIN LEE :
DOES THE ATTORNEY GENERAL NOT THINK THAT INSTEAD OF TRYING SO HARD TO DEFEND THE OFFENDERS OF SECTION 27 OF THE PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE,
HE SHOULD INSTEAD DEFEND THE PUBLIC OF HONG KONG BY REMOVING
SECTION 27 FROM OUR STATUTE BOOK?
ATTORNEY GENERAL :
SIR, HAVE NOT DEFENDED WHAT MR LEE HS PLEASED TO CALL AN OFFENDER,
TSELF AN IMPUTATION OF CRIMINALITY WHICH THUNK HE SHOULD WITHDRAW. THE QUESTION OF REPEALING THIS ORDINANCE DOES NOT ARISE FROM THESE
FACTS.
* HAVE MADE IT PERFECTLY CLEAR THAT BECAUSE THIS MATTER, WHICH HE HAS DRAWN TO MY ATTENTION, DOES NOT SEEM TO FALL WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE OFFENCE, IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT IN ANYWAY THE BILL OR THE ORDER - THAT THE PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE IS DEFECTED IN THIS WAY. IT REMAINS TO FULFIL THE PURPOSES THAT WERE INDICATED BY THIS COUNCIL WHEN IT WAS PASSED AS A VERY IMPORTANT MEASURE TO DEAL WITH
''BLATANT'' FALSEHOODS AND IRRESPONSIBLE REPORTING.
MR MART-UN LEE :
SIR, IS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL REFUSING TO ANSWER MY QUESTION WHICH IS EARLIER ASKED, IS HE SAYING THAT THE NEWS WAS NOT FALSE, S HE SAYING THERE WAS NO SUFFICIENT PUBLICATION, OR AS HE SAYING THERE IS NO
LIKELIHOOD TO CAUSE ALARM TO THE PUBLIC?
/ATTORNEY-GENERAL!