8
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1990
ENTRENCHING HE SAID IDEAS FOR CONVENTIONAL
SUCH METHODS,
SPECIAL MAJORITY VOTING, WERE NOT PURSUED BECAUSE THE BASIC LAW
AS
OPTIONS BY
то THE
PASSAGE
MIGHT REASON OF ITS OWN OF BILLS AND OTHER
BE SAID IMPLIEDLY TO RULE OUT THESE
DETAILED PROVISIONS LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURES.
RELATING
THE ICCPR
PERIOD LAW
RIGHTS FOR THE A FORM OF ENTRENCHMENT OF
39 OF THE BASIC AFTER 1997 WAS ALREADY TO BE FOUND IN ARTICLE WHICH REPEATED THE PROVISION IN THE JOINT DECLARATION THAT WOULD CONTINUE TO APPLY AND WENT ON TO SAY THAT THE BE IMPLEMENTED THROUGH THE LAWS OF HONG KONG.
THE ICCPR COVENANT WAS TO
WAS TO MIRROR OF ENTRENCHMENT PROBLEM THE SOLUTION TO THE
KONG'S PRINCIPAL CONSTITUTIONAL ARTICLE 39 OF THE BASIC LAW IN HONG
WHICH WOULD BE AMENDED SO AS TO PATENT, LETTERS DOCUMENT, THE
NOT COMPETENT ENTRENCH THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IS
AND FREEDOMS OF TO ENACT LAWS WHICH ABRIDGE THE RIGHTS HONG KONG IN A WAY WHICH IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE ICCPR.
THIS WILL ENABLE THE COURTS TO REVIEW LAWS TO INFRINGE THE BILL OF RIGHTS, MR MATHEWS SAID,
PERSONS
IN
WHICH
ARE ALLEGED
-
0
-
$428M CONTRACT FOR SEWAGE TREATMENT SCHEME AWARDED
THE
CONSTRUCTION WILL START SHORTLY ON THE MAJOR CIVIL WORK OF
AND DISPOSAL
HAS SCHEME WHICH NORTH WEST KOWLOON SEWAGE TREATMENT
QUALITY OFF THE WEST KOWLOON BEEN DESIGNED TO IMPROVE COASTLINE AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S COMMITMENT TO POLLUTION CONTROL.
WATER THE
TODAY AWARDED
(WEDNESDAY)
LARGEST OF SEVEN LET BY THE DRAINAGE
A $428 MILLION CONTRACT, THE SIXTH AND THE SCHEME, UNDER SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
WAS
THIS SIGNED IT WAS FORMALLY
SAUNDERS, DRAINAGE SERVICES, MR C.R. CONTRACTOR.
AND
AFTERNOON
A
BY THE DIRECTOR
OF REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE
OF
THE CONTRACT INVOLVES, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE CONSTRUCTION
AN UNDERWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITIES ON STONECUTTERS ISLAND AND
FACILITATE TWIN TWO-METRE DIAMETER PUMPED SEWER WHICH WILL BE USED TO SEWERAGE FLOWS FROM CHEUNG SHA WAN FOR TREATMENT ON THE ISLAND.
THE PUMPED SEWERS WILL BE ASSEMBLED ON STONECUTTERS ISLAND PROGRESSIVELY WINCHED ACROSS THE PREPARED SEABED TO CHEUNG SHA WAN, DISTANCE OF OVER ONE KILOMETRE.
THE IS
OF LARGEST
AND
A
THE
ITS KIND IN
OF 13. 5 CUBIC
THE PIPELINE, WHICH TERRITORY SO FAR, IS DESIGNED FOR A MAXIMUM FLOW RATE METRES PER SECOND.
/MR SAUNDERS