WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1990
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ACCOUNTANTS HAIL BILL OF RIGHTS
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HONG KONG ACCOUNTANTS WELCOME THE INTRODUCTION OF A BILL OF RIGHTS SETTING OUT IN ONE PIECE OF LEGISLATION THE BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS THAT HAVE OFTEN BEEN TAKEN FOR GRANTED, THE HON PETER H.Y. WONG SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE MOTION IN THE DEBATE ON THE BILL, MR WONG SAID WHILE IT COULD BE ARGUED THAT MOST OF THE RIGHTS HAD BEEN INCLUDED IN THE RECENTLY PROMULGATED BASIC LAW, THE PROBLEM REMAINED THAT THE BASIC LAW WAS PROMULGATED BY THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGLE3S IN PEKING AND COULD BE ALTERED OR CANCELLED WITHOUT OUR LEAVI
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"SINCE WE HAVE BEEN DENIED A BILL OF RIGHTS THAT IS ENSHRINED ABOVE ALL OTHER LEGISLATION, WE HAVE TO SETTLE FOR SOMETHING AT LEAST OF OUR OWN FREE CHOICE," HE SAID.
NOTING THAT CLAUSE (6) OF ARTICLE 2 OF THE DRAFT HONG KONG. BILL OF RIGHTS STATED "NOTHING IN THIS ARTICLE SHALL BE INVOKED ΤΟ DELAY OR TO PREVENT THE ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN HONG KONG", MR WONG WAS WORRIED THAT THE SUCCESSOR TO THIS LEGISLATURE, WITH ITS NEW FOUND HIGH DEGREE OF AUTONOMY, WOULD BE INCAPABLE OF EXERCISING THE DUE CARE AND WOULD PERMIT THE USE OF THIS ULTIMATE DETERRENT ΤΟ REMOVI: UNWELCOME OPPONENTS.
ALTHOUGH THERE WERE SOME HEINOUS CRIME, SUCH AS DRUG TRAFFICKING, THAT MR WONG SAID HE WOULD CONSIDER AS JUSTIFYING THE DEATH SENTENCE, HE HOWEVER WAS CONVINCED THAT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD BE ABOLISHED FORTHWITH.
DIRECT COMMUNICATION ONLY IN EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES
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THE ADMINISTRATION
AUDITORS
AND
ACCEPTS FULLY THE COMMISSIONER
THAT DIRECT COMMUNICATION OF
UNDER BANKING,
THE BILL 1990, SHOULD BE
BETWEEN PROVISIONS OF THE BANKING (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2)
CONFINED TO EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, THE ACTING FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON DAVID NENDICK, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
BILL, MR NENDICK BANKING WOULD
WINDING UP THE SECOND READING DEBATE ON THE SAID THAT FOLLOWING ITS ENACTMENT, THE COMMISSIONER OF ISSUE A STATEMENT SETTING OUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE HE WOULD AN AUDITOR TO SEEK A TRIPARTITE OR A BIPARTITE MEETING WITH HIM.
WILL ONLY BE "IN ESSENCE, DIRECT COMMUNICATION
CASES, FOR INSTANCE WHERE TAKE PLACE IN EXCEPTIONAL INDICATIONS OF SERIOUS FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY.
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