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WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1990
CS OUTLINES OBJECTIVES OF BILL OF RIGHTS
SECRETARY, THE THE CHIEF
HON SIR DAVID FORD SAID TODAY BILL OF (WEDNESDAY) ONE OF THE OVERRIDDING PRINCIPLES IN ENACTING A RIGHTS HAS BEEN AND WILL BE TO ENSURE THAT IT FULFILS OUR OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE JOINT DECLARATION SO THAT IT CAN LAST BEYOND 1997.
BILL
MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE HONG KONG BILL OF RIGHTS 1990 IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, SIR DAVID SAID: "WE CAN SEE NO BETTER WAY THAN TO ENACT A COMPREHENSIVE BILL OF RIGHTS."
HAD
SIR DAVID RECALLED THAT IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR, THE GOVERNOR
RIGHTS TO GIVE STATED THE GOVERNMENT INTENDED TO ENACT A BILL OF EFFECT IN DOMESTIC LAW TO THE RELEVANT PROVISIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL APPLIED TO HONG COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS (ICCPR) AS KONG.
NOTING THAT A WHITE BILL WAS PUBLISHED FOR PUBLIC DISCUSSION ON MARCH 6, HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT RECEIVED 800 WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS FROM
ENDED PERIOD THE CONSULTATION GROUPS
INDIVIDUALS AND BEGINNING OF JUNE.
WHEN
THE
"WE ALSO DISCUSSED THE WHITE BILL WITH 13 DISTRICT BOARDS THE HEUNG YEE KUK.
AND
"THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THESE SUBMISSIONS ARE IN OF THE ENACTMENT OF A BILL OF RIGHTS AS A FURTHER MEASURE TO HUMAN RIGHTS IN HONG KONG," SIR DAVID SAID.
SUPPORT PROTECT
THE CHIEF SECRETARY ALSO NOTED THAT A LEGCO AD HOC GROUP ON THE BILL OF RIGHTS, UNDER THE CONVENORSHIP OF THE HON SELINA CHOW, WAS SET UP LAST NOVEMBER.
FROM
WITH MEETING
APART
REPRESENTATIVES ADMINISTRATION, THE GROUP ALSO MET WITH MEMBERS OF RECEIVED THEIR REPRESENTATIONS.
FORWARDED ITS
REPORT ON THE
FROM THE THE PUBLIC AND
WHITE
THE GROUP ADMINISTRATION IN JUNE THIS YEAR, AND THE LEGISLATIVE HELD A MOTION DEBATE ON THE BILL OF RIGHTS ON JUNE 27.
TO BILL
THE COUNCIL ALSO
THE COMMENTS GIVEN IMPROVE THE
"THE ADMINISTRATION HAS STUDIED VERY CAREFULLY MADE BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND BY THE AD HOC GROUP, AND HAS SERIOUS CONSIDERATION TO WHAT CHANGES SHOULD BE MADE TO WHITE BILL.
OUTCOME OF THIS
"THE BILL NOW BEFORE MEMBERS REFLECTS THE CONSIDERATION AND INCORPORATES A NUMBER OF CHANGES TO THE WHITE BILL, SIR DAVID SAID.
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"TFE CHANGES MAINLY CONCERN PART I OF THE BILL WHICH DEALS WITH THE APPLICATION OF THE BILL," HE ADDED.
/THE CHIEF