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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1987

SUFFICIENT TIME TO MAKE CHANGES

THE GOVERNMENT IS CONFIDENT THAT IF DECISIONS WERE TAKEN TO ADOPT ANY OF THE OPTIONS INCLUDED IN THE GREEN PAPER WHICH INVOLVE

CHANGES TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, BUCH DECISIONS COULD BE IMPLEMENTED BEFORE THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE NEXT SESSION.

THIS WAS STATED BY THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON DAVID FORD, TODAY (WEDNESDAY) AT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON CONRAD LAM ABOUT WHETHER THERE WOULD BE SUFFICIENT TIME TO IMPLEMENT ANY CHANGES TO THE EXISTING LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FOR THE 1988 ELECTIONS.

SURVEY REPORT TO EXCLUDE REPORTED 'FALSIFIED' SUBMISSIONS

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THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON DAVID FORD, TODAY (WEDNESDAY) WOULD POINTED OUT THAT ANY SUBMISSION REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN FALSIFIED BE EXCLUDED FROM THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT.

THE

THAT

BEEN

A IN REPLY TO

THE QUESTION FROM

HON SELINA CHOW AT THE

YESTERDAY, LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING, MR FORD NOTED THAT UP TO SURVEY OFFICE HAD RECEIVED 101 REPORTS FROM INDIVIDUALS

IN FACT SUBMISSIONS WHICH PURPORTED TO HAVE COME FROM THEM HAD SENT WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE,

OFFICE RECEIVED 72 FURTHER REPORTS OF A SIMILAR NATURE THIS MORNING.

AND THE

THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID THAT SINCE FALSIFIED REPORTS WOULD

CREDIBILITY EXCLUDED FROM THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT, "THE ACCURACY AND OF THE REPORT WILL NOT THEREFORE BE AFFECTED".

BE

MR FORD ADDED THAT AS THOSE SUBMISSIONS WOULD BE EXCLUDED

THE REPORT, IT WOULD NOT BE APPROPRIATE NATURE OR THEIR CONTENTS.

FOR HIM TO DISCLOSE

FROM THEIR

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