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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1987

SURE THE 8 AME "AS FAR AS THIS COUNCIL IS CONCERNED, AND I AM

ON THE BASIS IS TRUE FOR OTHER BODIES, DECISIONS ARE NORMALLY TAKEN OF BROAD CONSENSUS BETWEEN DIFFERENT OR EVEN CONFLICTING INTERESTS THE COMMUNITY."

"THE SYSTEM HAS ENSUREL NOT ONLY CANNOT DOMINATE OVER OTHERS BUT

MINDS

IN

GROUPS

SPEAK POLITICAL NOT BE

THAT INDIVIDUALS OR

MAY ALSO INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS HINDERED OR

BY INFLUENCED VALUE OF SUCH

SHOULD A SYSTEM

THEIR

WITHOUT BEING PRESSURE OF ELECIONS. THE

Fr

UNDERMINED, HE ADDED.

MIGHT BE ACCUSED

MEMBER

NOTING THAT AN APPOINTED

OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF DEFENDING THE APPOINTMENT SYSTEM BECAUSE OF

TOOK THE

ΤΟ OPPORTUNITY

MAKK VESTED INTEREST, MR CHEN

KNOWN HIS EXECUTIVE COUNCILS INTENTION TO RETIRE FROM BOTH THE LEGISLATIVE AND

ΤΟ COINCIDE WITH HI3 AT THE END OF THE CURRENT SESSION

RETIREMENT FROM HIS PROFESSIONAL CAREER IN THE PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICE SECTOR.

"MY VIEWS EXPRESSED TODAY SHOULD THEREFORE ON THE WHILE PAPER ON THE ISSUE, HE SAID.

F

BEAR NO INFLUENCE

MR CHEN NOTED THAT IN 1985 THE APPOINTMENT SYSTEM

WHEN GOVERNMENT INTRODUCED INDIRECT MOMENTOUS CHANGE

OF THE THROUGH WHICH VARIOUS SECTORS

COMMUNITY SELECT REPRESENTATIVES TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

WERE

HE SAID SINCE OCTOBER 1985, THE WORK OF THE MUCH BUSIER BUT THE PRODUCTIVITY WAS RELATIVELY LOW,

UNDERWENT A ELECTIONS

PERMITTED TO

COUNCIL HAD BEEN

"ALTHOUGH THE NUMBER OF BILLS PASSED DURING THE CURRENT

FOR THE 1984-85 SESSION IS ONLY MARGINALLY LESS THAN THAT

SESSION, ΤΟ DEAL WITH THE NUMBER OF MEETINGS OF THE AD-HOC GROUPS AND PANELS

THAT EITHER THE THE BUSINESS HAD INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY INDICATING BILLS HAD TO BE EXAMINED IN MUCH GREATER DEPTH THUS REQUIRING MORE RESULT OF INCREASING AND LENGTHIER DISCUSSIONS OR, MORE LIKELY, THE DIFFICULTY IN REACHING CONSENSUS, OR A COMBINATION OF BOTH,

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HE NOTED.

"WE MUST NOT FORGET THAT TO COPE WITH THE INCREASED ACTIVITIES HAD TO IN THIS COUNCIL, MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION MUST HAVE ALSO

AMOUNT OF TIME PUT IN EXTRA

AND EFFORT TO DEAL WITH THE WORK

ASKED QUESTIONS

IN THIS GENERATED, SUCH AS RESPONDING TO

ΤΟ MEETINGS PREPARING REPLIES TO DEBATES AND ATTENDING BRIEF MEMBERS.

CHAMBER, DISCUSS AND

"I AM SURE THE ADMINISTRATION MUST HAVE FELT THE STRAIN

BUDGET NEXT YEAR LARGER SHALL NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE IN THE USUAL REQUESTS FOR INCREASE IN THE STAFF ESTABLISHMENT.

ון

AND I THAN

/HOWEVER, HR