S.9.
(£) Citizenship and representative institutions
(Paragraph 4.31)
(g) Citizenship duties and immigration (Paragraph 4.33)
Macro-autonomy
(h)
The relationship between the PRC legislature and the HKSAR legislature and judiciary. (Paragraph 4.34)
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Sufficient Judicial autonomy? (Paragraph 4.35)
Sufficient Legislative autonomy?
(Paragraph 4.38)
The Fifth Part of the paper is a proposal for a U.K./Hong Kong Working Group to discuss matters which appear to me to need
urgent consideration in Hong Kong. These include some issues which are relevant to the Hong Kong civil service, such as steps which can be taken towards its accountability. Hong Kong needs a discussion on the practical effect of its proposed Bill of Rights on the work of administrators, judges, lawyers and the police. How can each of them retain what is essential for their respective tasks, while being governed by new rules which are unfamiliar in the Territory, and in Britain for that matter? There are suggestions also for discussion on ways to raise public service morale in the run up to 1997, and for discussion on procedures which might improve administration visibly for the public benefit. Some of these issues also were referred to by the Governor, at the opening of the 1990-1991 Session of the Legislative Council, on 10th October, 1990. After my five and a half months in Hong Kong and the work on which this paper is based, it strikes me that there are a number of areas of public life which could profit from public discussion in the run-up to 1997 and, where appropriate, perhaps some changes specifically designed for public benefit. As a way of contributing to this process of change, I would like to propose to RIPA in London that a this Working Group be set up, with a remit to report publicly from time to time on matters which in its view may require attention at the official level and elsewhere in the run-up to, as well as beyond, 1997. Its membership will include persons in an individual capacity from all relevant walks of Hong Kong and British life. Its first meeting should be held soon, and might be intended to prepare an "action" report on the following matters:-
(a) The Fabric of Government
(b) The Fabric of the Legal System
It is important that the issues be considered by those holding a spectrum of views, including those opposed to much change or
development in the territory. I very much hope that the Hong Kong and