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Legislative programme
Following is a question by the Hon Martin Barrow and a written reply by the Chief Secretary, the Hon Mrs Anson Chan, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question: Would the Government inform this Council:
a)
how many items of legislation it plans to bring forward during 1994/95, in addition to the summary of the principal legislative proposals announced in the 1994 Policy Address;
b)
whether it will supply a list of the planned legislation;
c)
what further legislation is in the pipeline for 1995/96 and 1996/97;
d)
how many pieces of proposed legislation put forward to the Committee on Legislative Priorities have been rejected or deferred by the Committee; and
Reply:
e)
Mr President,
how it plans to fit all this new legislation into the legislative timetable, in the light of the need to amend existing legislation to bring it in line with the SAR's Basic Law?
a) & b) introduce another 39 items of legislation during the 1994/95 session.
17 of these have already been introduced into the Council. Details of these are at Annex A, and of the other 22 items at Annex B. It is important to note that the list at Annex B is subject to amendment in the light of changing circumstances.
b)
The legislative programme for the 1995/96 and the 1996/97 sessions has yet to be worked out. In order that a realistic programme can be drawn up, Secretariat Branches are invited to make bids for legislative slots about one year in advance. Bids for slots in the first half of the 1995/96 session are currently being invited from Secretariat Branches, and the provisional programme for this period will be finalised in April 1995. Bids for slots in the second half of the 1995/96 session will be invited in June 1995 and the provisional programme will be finalised in October 1995.