129.
two
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Separating the membership
of the
Councils implies that Legco must be left
free' to Fun its Own affairs and, in the
process, to develop further its relationship
with the Government. That is the position
now laid down in the Royal Instructions, and
will be the position, set out in Article 75
of the Basic Law, in the future. As an
important move in that direction, I wish to
hand over the responsibilities of presiding
.over this Council to a President elected by
you from among your own Members.
130.
This will mean that, in future, I
will be answerable
erable as the head of the
Executive to this Council rather than being
restricted to
to the role of President. To be
answerable to this Council in practice, I
if you agree, to make myself
propose,
available to answer Members' questions and
to
discuss
government policies and
proposals, on at least one Thursday every
month that you are in session, though in
practice I imagine you will be seeing a good
deal more of me than that. I should also
like to make myself. available to this
Council to report on my major trips abroad
and on other important developments. With
your agreement, I suggest that the first of
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