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Purpose
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TIME-TABLE FOR A SECOND STAGE BILL
言
This
paper
discusses the
broad time-table for
legislating arrangements for the functional constituencies and the Election Committee for the 1995 LegCo elections,
White Paper to tie in with the
and for
the publishing
legislative process.
Conclusion
2
We should:
(i)
introduce draft
legislation on 9 March 1994
for enactment by 6 July 1994, regardless of draft legislation is to be based or the 1993 package (see paras.4
whether the
on the 1992
and 8); and
(ii) publish the White Paper on 18 February 1994, if it is agreed that its publication should be timed to pave the way for (i) above
(see para. 7).
Analysis
3
LegCo
has to be in
summer recess.
As can be seen from the major steps leading to the elections in 1995, all necessary primary legislation place by 6 July 1994 before LegCo goes into If we fail to make this date, enactment of the legislation will be put back to November 1994 because of the intervening summer, plus the fact that October will practically all be taken up by the Governor's Annual Address. This will leave the BEC with totally inadequate
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