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proposals to ensure your financial and managerial
autonomy in organising your own administration and
support facilities.
22.
You already have the powers you need to develop
your own committee structure. I assume you will wish to
establish a system that enables you to ensure that the
ur
executive is fully accountable to the legislate, as
in the
laid down|Joint Declaration and Basic Law, and that this
Joint
procedure works effectively and openly.
23.
With these new arrangements, a different
relationship will have to be created between the Council
and the Government to ensure that public business
that
is the Government's legislative and financial programmes
- is conducted efficiently. A Government Business
Committee will be established to discuss the handling of
the Executive's legislative and financial programmes.
This new non-statutory body will be chaired by me or by
the Chief Secretary or Financial Secretary according to
the subject under discussion. I invite the Council to
decide for itself the Members whom I should ask to join
this new body. I assume the Council will wish to ensure
that they are broadly representative of its overall
membership.
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