LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL
(4) Companies (Prevention of Evasion of the Societies Ordinance)
Ordinance 1959.
The Attorney General to move the following resolucion :-
Resolved, pursuant to section 16 of the Companies (Prevention
of Evasion of the Societies Ordinance) Ordinance, 1959, that the duration of the said Ordinance be extended for the term of one year with effect from 1st January, 1962.
(5) New Territories (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 1961,
The Colonial Secretary to move the Tirst reading of :-
A Bill intituled; "An Ordinance to amend the New Territories
Ordinance, Chapter 97, and to validate certain acte purported
to have been done thereunder."
(6) Magistrates (Amendment) HILL, 1961.
The Attorney General to move the Firas reading of :-
A Bill Latituled: "Au Ordinance to amend the Magistrates
Ordinance, Chapter 227, and to repeal the Administration of Justice (Summary Offences) Ordinance, 1955."
(7) Landlord and Terant (Amendment) Bill, 1961.
The Attorney General to move the First reading of :-
A Bill Latituled: "Ao Ordinance to amend the Landlord and
Tenant Ordinance, Chapter 255,"
(8) Wild Birds and Wild Manuals Protection (Amendment) Bill, 1961.
The Attorney General to move the first reading of :-
A Bill intituled: "An Ordinance to amend the Wild Dizda
and Wild Mammals Protection Ordinance, 1954."
(9) Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Amendment) Bill, 1961.
The Attorney General to move the Second and Third readinga of :-
A Bill intituled; "An Ordinance further to amend the Factories
and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, 1955."
A. CHARMAN,
DEPUTY CLERK OF COUNCILS.
Meeting to be held on Wednesday, 27th December, 1964, at 2.30 p.m.
ORDER OF BUSINESS,
CONFIRMATION OF MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON 13TH DECEMBER, 1961.
2.
PAPERS TO BE LAID.
3. QUESTIONS.
Mx. W.C.G. Knowles, pursuant to notice, will ask the following
questions :-
1.
Advisory Boards and Committees are an important part of the organization of Government, and their recommendations frequently involve the expenditure of public funds. I therefore ask :-
(a) That Government should state what are the standing ordera of procedure of such boards and Committees, with particular reference to the rights of individual members to call for meetinga and to raise subjects for discussion. In this connection would Government please state whether, under the terms of reference of the Traffic Advisory Board, unofficial members of that Board can initiate subjects for discussion and, if not, whether consideration will be given to changing the terms of reference ao an to allow them to do so7
(b) That Government should confirm that it is the duty of members of Advisory Boarde and Committees to express their opinions of what is in the interests of the Colony as a whole, disregarding their own interests or those of any trade association by whom they may have been nominated, and that if matters under discussion involve the interests of any member or of the Ascociation by whom he has been nominated, it is obligatory on him to declare his interest in the usual marmer in order that Government and the remainder of the Board may have the opportunity of evaluating his opinions
2. My predecessor as Chairman of the General Chamber of Commerce
emphasised in his budget speech earlier this year that the industrial and commercial community is much concerned with the high price of land, leased by Government for industrial use. The new system of publishing in advance a programme of proposed auctions of industrial land seems to have had a beneficial effect in some arega, and I should like to ask :-
(a) Will Government give a public assurance that they intend to continue to publish advance programmes of suctions?
(b) Till Government adjust upset prices to any lowering of the market, and will they also refrain from artificial support of prices by such devices as withdrawing lots from suction or interposing a Crown bid when the other bids do not come up to a level wblob Government conaiders satisfactory?
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