Art.

78

79

Draft MBL

LegCo members may make inquiries concerning government work,

work, in accordance with legal procedures.

Unless otherwise prescribed by the Basic Law, bills and motions shall be passed by a simple majority vote of all its members.

No provision for the passage

motions, bills

of

or

amendments

bills

to government introduced

by

individual members.

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Art.

73 (5)

15

Annex II

82

LegCo members shall not be arrested without the permission of the Council except for those who

"active criminals"

78

83

HKBL

LegCo may raise questions on the work of the government.

The

passage of bills introduced by the government shall require at least a simple majority vote of the members present.

Private bills to be passed by a majority vote of each of 2 groups of members present, i.e. members elected by functional constituencies; and the others (directly elected plus those elected by the Election Committee).

LegCo members shall not be arrested when attending or on their way to a meeting of the Council.

are

(現行犯

necessary

A resolution by LegCo is

for

the disqualification of a Macao legislator for any reason. The reasons include absence without valid reason from 5 consecutive sessions or a total of 15 intermittent sessions, without the consent of the President of the LegCo.

79

A Hong Kong legislator may be disqualified:

i)

or

more

if he or she is sentenced to imprisonment for 1 month for offense committed within or outside the Region and is relieved of his or her duties by a motion passed by two-thirds of the legislators present.

Remarks

More

restrictive immunity HKSAR's members.

for

LegCo

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