WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1985
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PUBLIC VIEWS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED
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GOVERNOR
REPRESENTATIONS MADE OVER THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (POWERS
AND PRIVILEGES) BILL HAD BEEN VERY CAREFULLY CONSIDERED BY MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND VERY CONSCIENTIOUSLY ANSWERED, THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER TODAY'S LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING, SIR EDWARD SAID THE DEBATE ON THE BILL HAD BEEN A VERY IMPORTANT ONE IN THE HISTORY OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
+OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, A LARGE NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIONS HAD BEEN MADE IN RELATION TO THIS BILL, HE SAID.
+ I HOPE THAT THE SAME WIDE PUBLICITY WILL BE GIVEN TO THE SPEECHES WHICH WERE MADE THIS AFTERNOON AS WAS GIVEN TO THOSE REPRESENTATIONS BECAUSE I THINK IT WILL THEN BE CLEAR TO THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG THAT THE REPRESENTATIONS WERE VERY CAREFULLY CONSIDERED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND VERY CONSCIENTIOUSLY ANSWERED.
+AND IN CONCLUSION, I WOULD LIKE JUST TO PAY A TRIBUTE TO MISS TAM AND HER TEAM FÖR ALL THE WORK THEY DID ON THE BILL AND TO ALL THOSE WHO MADE CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTIONS ON IT, HE SAID.
CLEAR IDENTITY SOUGHT FOR HONG KONG ******
THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (POWERS AND PRIVILEGES) BILL IS TO ESTABLISH A CLEAR IDENTITY FOR HONG KONG AND THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONG KONG, AND TO HAVE THAT IDENTITY FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN OUR OWN STATUTE LAW, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID TODAY.
SUPPORTING THE THIRD READING OF THE BILL, SIR DAVID SAID THIS IDENTITY SHOULD NOT BE DIFFUSED IN VARIOUS ORDERS AND ORDINANCES AND THE CASE LAW, PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES FOLLOWED BY A PARLIAMENT THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
+WE NEED TO HAVE OUR OWN LAW, HERE, IN HONG KONG, HE SAID.
+THE LEGISLATION IS ONE OF A NUMBER OF PRACTICAL MEASURES DESIGNED TO ESTABLISH THIS IDENTITY; THIS HIGH DEGREE OF AUTONOMY AS IT HAS BEEN CALLED IN ANOTHER CONTEXT.+
/THESE MEASURES