SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1994.
QUESTION:
GOVERNOR:
(INAUDIBLE)
BEEN DEALING CEASED TO BE THE QUESTIONED ON
WELL FIRST OF ALL, THE HIGH COURT HAS WITH ISSUES WHICH TOOK PLACE TWO YEARS AFTER I MINISTER OF OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT. SECOND, WHEN I WAS THIS ISSUE BY THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS SELECT COMMITTEE I SAID THAT WHILE I ARMS WAS MINISTER FOR OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT THERE WAS NO LINK BETWEEN AND AID AND THERE WASN'T AND THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS SELECT CONFIRMED THAT.
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AND
WHAT
+
REACTION DO YOU
HAVE
QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE) THAT THERE WAS A LINK BETWEEN THE TWO.
GOVERNOR:
COMMITTEE
ΤΟ
DOUGLAS HURD'S
THE ISSUE. AND WHAT THAT IS NOT, WITH RESPECT,
IS A DOUGLAS HURD HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT IN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS HIGH COURT JUDGMENT ABOUT SOMETHING THAT TOOK PLACE TWO YEARS AFTER WAS MINISTER FOR OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT.
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THE DRAFT LEGISLATURE
QUESTION:
IF LEGCO REJECT THE COURT OF FINAL APPEAL BILL, DO YOU THINK IT'S A MATTER FOR THE PROVISIONAL MAKE A DECISION?
GOVERNOR:
IF
LEGCO REJECT LEGISLATION ON APPEAL, DECISIONS WILL HAVE TO BE TAKEN AFTER 1997.
THAT.
OK?
QUESTION:
ΤΟ
A COURT OF FINAL IT'S AS SIMPLE AS
DOES THAT MEAN THAT IF LEGCO AMENDS THE YOU BE ABLE TO VETO THE BILL?
BILL, WOULD
GOVERNOR:
STANDARD QUESTION NUMBER TWO.
STANDARD ANSWER
NUMBER
DOES THAT MEAN THAT THE GOVERNMENT WON'T MAKE A SECOND ATTEMPT TO TABLE THE BILL IF IT'S TO BE REJECTED?
IF
WE
PERSUADE THE
TWO. IT'S DIFFICULT ENOUGH GOVERNING HONG KONG WITHOUT MAKING IT MORE HYPOTHETICAL SITUATIONS. WE DIFFICULT BY INVITING ME TO REPLY TO
COMMUNITY AND THE INTEND,
CAN,
TO PERSUADE
LEGISLATIVE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF OUR WISDOM IN PUTTING FORWARD THE PROPOSALS ON THE COURT OF FINAL APPEAL, AND I HOPE WE SUCCEED, I THINK IT'S IN THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT WE SHOULD.
QUESTION:
OK?
GOVERNOR:
SORRY?
QUESTION:
THERE
WON'T
BE A SECOND ATTEMPT TO
THE TABLE
BILL
BEFORE 1997?
WELL, WE
— —
THIS
HAVE
UP
AND
TOP
THROUGH DURING GOVERNOR:
WISH TO GET THE BILL
UNLESS WE SESSION. THE PROBLEM OF THE TIMETABLE 1S IMPLACABLE. THE BILL UP AND RUNNING
SORRY, UNLESS WE HAVE THE COURT RUNNING BY THE MIDDLE OF 1996, WE WILL FACE A LEGAL VACUUM AT THE OF OUR LEGAL STRUCTURE BECAUSE THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL TAKE ABOUT A YEAR TO CONSIDER CASES, WHICH MEANS ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF 1996 THEY WOULD FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT TO HONG KONG CASES, SO WE'VE GOT TO GET THE COURT UP AND RUNNING THEN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH INDEED.
THE PRIVY THAT FROM
HANDLE BEFORE
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