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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1987
SHOULD
AND
FOR
THE
"IN THE INTEREST OF BALANCED DEVELOPMENT, A LEGISLATURE
GEOGRAPHICAL OF OCCUPATIONAL, SPECTRUM BE FILLED BY AS WIDE A
THE CALLS EXPLAINS POSSIBLE. THIS SECTORAL NUMBER OF FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES TO BE INCREASED," HE SAID.
INTERESTS AS
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, DR HO GOVERNOR OF HONG PRESIDENT OF
TURNING TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE SAID HE DID NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THE THINKING THAT THE
AS SERVE KONG
NOT SIMULTANEOUSLY SHOULD LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
THE
THE
THE SYMBOLIC KONG AND
HE NOTED THAT CONSTITUTIONALLY, THE GOVERNOR WAS
HONG SOVEREIGNTY OVER REPRESENTATIVE OF THE QUEEN'S EXERCISED THE POWERS OF THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE.
COMPREHENSIVE AND THIS MEANS THAT HIS POWERS AS GOVERNOR WERE
EVEN INCLUSIVE OF HIS POWERS AS PRESIDENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
TO PRESIDE ON PERSON
HIS
THE BEHALF, IF HE APPOINTED SOME OTHER
OF THE LETTERS PATENT AND THE GOVERNOR WOULD CONTINUE, BY VIRTUE
TO CONTROL ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS, TO RETAIN THE POWERS THAT ENABLED HIM THE BUSINESS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
WITHHOLD HIS
WAS ASSENT
NOT
FROM,
FOR EXAMPLE, THE GOVERNOR COULD EXERCISE CERTAIN
TO: INCLUDING ENTITLED THE PRESIDENT
LEGISLATION PASSED
BE SITTING
HELD
A
ΤΟ ASSENT
TO, BY THE LEGISLATIVE THE NORMAL OUTSIDE
POWERS WHICH OR
COUNCIL; DETERMINE WHETHER SESSION; AND DISSOLVE THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
PURPOSE TO
"UNDER THESE REPLACE
"
CIRCUMSTANCES,
IT THEREFORE SERVES NO
OF PRESIDENT THE ANOTHER PERSON, HE SAID.
MOREOVER, WHILE THE BASIC
THE
LEGISLATIVE
USEFUL COUNCIL BY
LAW WAS BEING PROMULGATED DURING AS ΤΟ THE RELATIONSHIP IN THE FUTURE
THIS INTERIM PERIOD, THERE WAS NO KNOWLEDGE AND THE ROLE OF THE GOVERNOR (OR THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE) HKSAR LEGISLATURE.
"THEREFORE, IN
THE INTEREST
OF
I PREFER THE THE GOVERNOR AS THE ALLOWS HIM
SPECIFIC
CONVERGENCE, OPTION TO MAKE NO FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE TO THE ROLE OF BUT COUNCIL, THE
THE PRESIDENT OF
LEGISLATIVE DISCRETION TO APPOINT SOME ONE TO PRESIDE IN HIS ABSENCE FOR SITTINGS OR PART OF A SITTING," DR HO SAID,
FINALLY, DR HO URGED THE PUBLIC TO EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS SURVEY OFFICE.
TO THE
THAT HE/SHE MUST "IN HIS/HER DELIBERATIONS, I EARNESTLY URGE
ВЕ BEAR IN MIND THAT THE POLITICAL REFORMS REFERRED TO IN 1988 SHOULD
THE PROMULGATION OF THE VIEWED AS INTERIM MEASURES, WHILE AWAITING BASIC LAW," HE SAID.
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