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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1988
"
"AS THE CPU WILL NOT ITSELF BE A POLICY BRANCH OR AN DEPARTMENT, CLEARLY IT WILL NOT HAVE RESPONSIBILITY POLICY," SIR DAVID EXPLAINED.
EXECUTIVE FOR IMPLEMENTING
THE
SIR
THAT
COMMENTING ON SPECULATION THAT THE CPU MIGHT SOMEHOW USURP THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, ROLE OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OR EVEN
NO QUESTION WHATSOEVER OF DAVID STRESSED THAT THERE COULD BE HAPPENING.
THE
PURELY ADVISORY, "ALTHOUGH IN THEORY THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL IS
GIVEN THAT DECISION-MAKING BODY IT IS IN PRACTICE A CORPORATE GOVERNOR INVARIABLY ACTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COUNCIL'S ADVICE.
"THE CPU
POLICY BODY.
PROPOSALS
THE TO THE
IS NOT A DECISION-MAKING
WITHIN CONSIDERED INITIALLY BE WILL EMERGING FROM THE UNIT ADMINISTRATION AND WILL THEN, WHERE APPROPRIATE, BE SUBMITTED GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION AND DECISION.
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WAS TAKEN FOLLOWING
SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT IF A DECISION THE ADVICE OF THE CPU WHICH REQUIRED THE ENACTMENT OF
OF APPROVAL THE THE ALLOCATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS, COUNCIL WOULD HAVE TO BE SOUGHT IN THE NORMAL WAY.
LEGISLATION OR
THE
LEGISLATIVE
AS REGARDS THE ORGANISATION AND STAFFING OF THE CPU, SIR ENVISAGED THAT THE UNIT WOULD BE ORGANISED IN A FLEXIBLE WAY.
T
DAVID
MEMBERS
ABOUT FOUR FULL-TIME THERE WILL BE A SMALL CORE OF
FORM PART OF THE IN FROM WITH A NUMBER OF SUPPORTING STAFF, AND THEY WILL CIVIL SERVICE ALTHOUGH SOME OF THEM WILL PROBABLY BE BROUGHT OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT.
"THERE WILL ALSO BE A NUMBER OF PART-TIME MEMBERS, WHO DRAWN FROM WITHIN AS WELL AS OUTSIDE THE CIVIL SERVICE. SOME
WORK OF THE UNIT WOULD PARTICIPATE REGULARLY IN THE WOULD BE BROUGHT IN ON AN AD HOC BASIS.
"THE MEMBERS, BOTH FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME, WILL
WHILE
MAY BE OF THEM OTHERS
BE APPOINTED
BY THE GOVERNOR,
SIR DAVID SAID.
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