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TRANSCRIPT D: SELECT COMMITTER ON HONG KONG
12 JUNE 1989
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SIR DAVID WILSON (CONTD);
Opinion in Hong Kong now is focussing on election of
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that
a potential Chief Executive rather than selection
is the same AMELCO opinion that Mr. Canavan referred to, If that is accepted as what goes eventually into the Basic Law, you would have a Chief Executive who was elected in
Hong Kong and you would have a Legislature which was
elected in Hong Kong by different meaNS, so they would
both be elected,
In the Draft at the moment, the Legislature does
have very considerable power. Above all, it has the
power of the purse which in Westminster, I think, has been
crucial historically
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they have that power.
There is, as you say, the question of who dismisses
who when there is a deadlock,
provision in both directions.
There is actually a
There 16 a provision for
the Chief Executive to dissolve the Assembly
as there is
and then
in any government structure that I am aware of
there is a process of impeachment of a Chief Executive by
the Legislature.
But I do not think it would be right, even in the
present Draft basic Law, to think of that as something
which is a weak Legislature.
power.
It has very considerable