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HONG KONG BILL TIMETABLE PLANNER
ANNEX B
Optimistic Scenario
Pessimistic Scenario
Week 2
6 April
Introduction and 1st Reading (Then leave two clear weekends)
before
[Last minute policy problems. We fail to get in Easter]
2nd Reading
Easter Recess 4/5 17/18 April
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Week 17/18 - 20 April
(Then leave two clear weekends)
two clear
Introduction and 1st Reading. (Then leave weekends)
Week 23 27 April
Week 30 April
4 May
Committee stage, if possible on the Floor. (Normally leave two clear weekends, but Report can, exceptionally, follow
immediately).
2nd Reading
(Hostile
reception. Leave more than two weeks to prepare Government amendments).
Week 7
11 May
Week 14
18 May
Report Stage and 3rd Reading
Introduction to Lords.
(Then leave two clear weekends)
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