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should be intimately concerned with all the five draft bills. Both majority and minority agreed that the provision made for representation of Chinese on the Council was adequate and that further democratic control was for the moment undesirable; and that the present Board should be continued in office until their turn of office should in the normal course expire.
10.
The bills were next submitted, along with the Committee's report for consideration by the Attorney General, Director of Medical & Sanitary Services and the Head of the Sanitary Department. In the course of the ensuing inter- departmental discussion the opportunity was taken to introduce into the bills a number of amendments of detail, including
extension of powers of the Sanitary Department in directions
in which experience had shown extension to be desirable. In
his comments on the report His Excellency stressed the neces- sity for whole-hearted co-operation between the officers whose positions and duties were affected by the scheme, if the scheme were to be successful in operation.
11.
The draft code was further revised by the Attorney
General on the basis of those recommendations in which the whole
Committee was in agreement, and on 28th December last His Excellency laid before the Executive Council for its approval, which was given unanimously, the question of the introduction into Legislative Council of the bills which, with suspending clauses in each case, have become law, subject to the significa- tion of His Majesty's pleasure, as reported to the Secretary of State in His Excellency's Confidential despatches of 8th March 27th March and 17th April, 1935. The Bills received the unanimous support of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council and subject to certain minor amendments in Committee were passed without opposition.
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