WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1989
SECTION 27 OF POO REPEALED
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY
{WEDNESDAY)
REPEAL SECTION 27 OF THE PUBLIC ORDER ORDINANCE.
PASSED A BILL TO
(AMENDMENT} BILL INFORMATION, THE
IN WINDING UP THE DEBATE ON THE PUBLIC ORDER 1988, THE SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND HON PETER TSAO, EXPLAINED THAT THE EXISTENCE OF SECTION 27 HAD CONCERN TO THE PUBLIC OUT OF PROPORTION TO THE VALUE TO THE OF KEEPING IT.
OF THE
CAUSED COMMUNITY
WHO LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN THANKING SEVERAL MEMBERS
THAT VERY SPOKE TODAY IN SUPPORT OF THE AMENDMENT BILL, MR TSAO SAID
BY A WIDE CONSULTATION WAS UNDERTAKEN THROUGH VISITS TO HIS OFFICE
LAWYERS, INCLUDING
JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION, VARIETY OF PEOPLE PUBLISHERS AND OWNERS OF NEWSPAPERS.
THE
WERE ABLE TO ** HE SAID.
WE WHEREBY MADE "ALSO AN OUTGOING EFFORT WAS REACH OUT AND CONSULT A WIDE SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY,
MR TSAO SAID:
IN REPLY TO COMMENTS BY THE HON STEPHEN CHEONG, "I WOULD LIKE TO ASSURE MR CHEONG THAT WHEN I REFERRED TO WATER HAVING GONE UNDER THE BRIDGE, THERE WAS NO INTENTION OF BEING COMPLACENT.'
"THESE WERE EXPRESSIONS OF CONCILIATION, THAT I WAS THE REPEAL OF THIS SECTION, THE WOUNDS WOULD NOT BE OPENED,"
ON MR
CHEONG'S QUESTION
AS
SOME
I
HOPING ON HE ADDED.
THE MEMBERS OF
MR CONSULTED,
PROCESS OF
WHY TO BILL WERE NOT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, WHO SUPPORTED THE TSAO SAID: "SOME WERE CONSULTED, NOT ALL OF THEM, BUT THE CONSULTATION WITH THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FOLLOWED ESTABLISHED PROCEDURE.
THE STANDARD AND
HE SAID A LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL BRIEF WAS ISSUED NOVEMBER 30 WHICH MARKED THE PERIOD OF CONSULTATION,
ΤΟ MEMBERS ON
MR TSAO SAID HE WAS STRUCK BY SOME OF THE REMARKS CHEONG IN RELATION TO THE QUALITY OF THE PRESS.
MADE BY MR
CAN TO GET, ARE WE GETTING A RIGHT
"HE ASKED A FEW PERTINENT QUESTIONS, HE ASKED WHAT QUALITY WE EXPECT OF THE PRESS? WHAT KIND OF TRAINING ARE THEY GOING OR ARE GETTING? ARE THEY PAID CALIBRE OF JOURNALISTS AND REPORTERS?"
ADEQUATELY?
"THESE ARE THE VERY QUESTIONS
AND
I
WOULD
ME ALSO, THOSE DIRECT THE
то OCCURRED THAT
THE PRESS AND OF MEMBERS LIKE FREQUENTLY, RESPONSIBLE FOR RUNNING THE PRESS, WHO OWN THE PRESS, WHO PRESS, TO ASK THESE SAME QUESTIONS.
"THEY SHOULD PONDER OVER THESE POINTS RAISED BY MR SOME SOUL-SEARCHING ON THEIR PART WOULD NOT BE AMISS,
CHEONG
AND
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MR
TSAO
SAID.
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