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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1987

HE REGRETTED THAT ONLY RECENTLY HAD HE LEARNED THAT THE GOVERMNENT AND THE UNHCR WERE CONSIDERING IMPROVING EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN IN THE CLOSED CAMPS AND THAT SUGGESTIONS MADE SOME MONTHS AGO BY THE LEGCO AD HOC GROUP THAT JOB OPPORTUNITIES SHOULD BE BROUGHT INTO THE CLOSED CAMPS HAD NOT EVEN BEEN REPLIED TO.

MR HUI THOUGHT THAT JOBS PAID FOR AT SOMETHING NEAR THE MARKET FOR RATE, COMBINED WITH VOCATIONAL TRAINING, WOULD PRODUCE CANDIDATES RESETTEMENT AND THE MONEY EARNED FROM IT COULD ALSO BE PUT PARTLY TOWARDS THE COST OF RUNNING THE CAMPS.

ONLY

HE SAID WHILE MANY PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE CLOSED CAMPS PUT TO AN END, THIS COULD

HAPPEN WHEN THE GOVERNMENT HAD A LASTING SOLUTION THAT WOULD GUARANTEE

REFUGEE POPULATION WOULD

NOT INCREASE.

THE

"IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH A SOLUTION THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IS DUTY BOUND TO FULFIL ITS MORAL OBLIGATION TO HONG KONG BY SETTING AN EXAMPLE IN ARRANGING OVERSEAS RESETTLEMENT OF OUR REFUGEES, HE SAID.

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AMENDMENT BILL AIMED TO DETER NAME-DROPPING

* * * *

THE MAIN PURPOSES OF THE CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL PRACTICES MAKE "NAME-DROPPING" IN ELECTIONS AN (AMENDMENT) BILL 1987 ARE TO OFFENCE AND TO PERMIT THE DEPUTY CHIEF SECRETARY TO SPECIFY OF RETURN AND DECLARATION OF ELECTION EXPENSES.

ITS

THE FORM

IN

THE

DISTRICT

TO

EXPLAINING THE

DURING BILL

SECOND READING SECRETARY FOR (WEDNESDAY), LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY ADMINISTRATION, THE HON DONALD LIAO, SAID "NAME-DROPPING" REFERRED

THE A SITUATION IN WHICH A CANDIDATE IN AN ELECTION CLAIMED TO HAVE

PRIOR WRITTEN SUPPORT OF ANOTHER PERSON OR ORGANISATION, WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE PERSON OR ORGANISATION WHOSE NAME WAS BEING USED.

THE CONTENT OF IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT MISREPRESENTATION IN

1986 HAD SOME CAMPAIGN MATERIALS USED IN THE LAST ELECTIONS IN MARCH

WAS NOW ATTRACTED GENERAL CRITICISM FROM THE PUBLIC, MR LIAO SAID IT

INCLUDED IN THE ORDINANCE PROPOSED THAT AN ADDITIONAL PROVISION BE

SEEK AND OBTAIN PRIOR WRITTEN WHEREBY CANDIDATES WERE REQUIRED TO

ORGANISATION IN CONSENT BEFORE USING THE NAME OF ANY OTHER PERSON OR THEIR ELECTION ACTIVITIES AND BY MAKING A BREACH OF THIS PROVISION OFFENCE.

"THE PENALTIES

FOR

NAME-DROPPING

AN

WERE A

FINE

OF

$500 OF INDICTMENT,

ON

AN ELECTOR

AS

WELL

AS

SUMMARY CONVICTION, OR A FINE OF $2,000 ON CONVICTION TOGETHER WITH A DISQUALIFICATION FROM BEING REGISTERED AS

OF FOR

YEARS

CONVICTION SEVEN

FROM THE DATE DISQUALIFICATION FROM CANDIDATURE FOR 10 YEARS.

"THESE MEASURES