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separate from the Governor.
A civil service John the
Baptist would be a better way of proceeding initially so
that an elected PCE could succeed to an existing machine.
Secondly, if anticipatory organs are to act as a training
ground for post-1997 successors, the 'trainees' must be
qualified in post-1997 terms, i.e. have potentially the
qualifications for post-1997.
within the Legislature. It is even more relevant for the
CE and post-1997 principal officials.
We already face this problem
16. A secondary issue as regards principal officials will
be whether the existing compensation scheme is sufficient to
deal with the consequences of the nationality and abode
qualifications.
E.
Retention of Sufficient Powers by Executive/Governor
17.
With the loss of an official majority in the Legco,
consideration needs to be given to the possibility of
conferring on the Governor of reserved powers of legislation
and financial appropriation: if a PCE is created a similar
question arises since he too may not have majority support
in the Legislature.
Indeed, we will need to think of
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