نيا
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1991
"WE ARE CAREFULLY CONSIDERING THIS QUESTION.
BE NECESSARY TO
DELETE
THIS
ALTOGETHER
WHETHER IT WILL OR WHETHER
AN
T
CLAUSE ALTERNATIVE FORMULATION WOULD BE APPROPRIATE HAS YET TO BE DECIDED.
APART
FROM
THE QUESTIONS
THE
A LEGAL NATURE, SUCH
POWERS,
USE OF "ORGANISED CRIME GROUP".
AS THE
ACCOMPLICE
WITH THE CONSISTENCY CONCERNING
ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL COVENANT, MANY COMMENTATORS HAD RAISED OTHER
POWER OF CONFISCATION, INVESTIGATIVE
AND THE EVIDENCE
DEFINITION
OF
THESE ISSUES RAISED COMPLEX CAREFULLY CONSIDERED.
QUESTIONS LEGAL
WHICH WOULD BE
MR MATHEWS ADDRESSED A CONCERN RELATING TO THE EXERCISE OF DISCRETION TO PROSECUTE.
HIS
WHO
YOUNG OFFENDERS SOME MEMBERS HAD EXPRESSED THE FEAR THAT
PETTY OFFENCES MIGHT BE WERE LOOSELY ASSOCIATED TOGETHER TO COMMIT LIABLE TO PROSECUTION AND HARSH PUNISHMENT UNDER THE BILL.
ALL
WHITE BILL IS TARGETTED AT "LET ME ASSURE MEMBERS THAT THE
REQUIRED FOR ORGANISED CRIME AND ORGANISED CRIME ONLY. MY CONSENT IS
BE GIVEN AFTER ANY PROSECUTION UNDER THE BILL AND IT WILL ONLY
AND MOST CAREFULLY THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF A CASE HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY EXAMINED," HE SAID.
THE
ADMINISTRATION HAD
STRUCK BETWEEN THE AND THE REQUIREMENTS OF AN
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL POINTED OUT THAT BEEN FULLY ALIVE TO THE NEED FOR A BALANCE TO BE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL EFFECTIVE AND WORKABLE BILL.
WILL THAT IT THE WITH AS MIRRORED IN
"BEFORE THE BLUE BILL IS INTRODUCED INTO THIS COUNCIL, WE OF COURSE ENSURE, TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY AND KNOWLEDGE,
THE
PATENT LETTERS
AND IS CONSISTENT COMPLIES INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS THE BILL OF RIGHTS.
WITH
"EQUALLY IMPORTANT, WE WILL ENSURE THAT THE BILL IS IS TRULY EFFECTIVE AND WORKABLE," MR MATHEWS SAID.
ONE WHICH
PUBLIC CONCERN ABOUT TRIADS 'REAL AND VALID'
*
VALID, LEGISLATIVE
THE
ORGANISED CRIME IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM IN HONG KONG, AND PUBLIC CONCERN ABOUT
AND THE THREAT FROM TRIADS IS BOTH REAL ACTING SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, MR IAN STRACHAN, TOLD THE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
SPEAKING IN THE MOTION DEBATE ON THE ORGANISED CRIME WHITE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE BILL, MR STRACHAN NOTED THAT SOME
BILL CONCERNED THAT THE DEFINITION OF "ORGANISED CRIME GROUP" IN THE WAS TOO WIDE AND POTENTIALLY OPEN TO ABUSE.
/THE BILL