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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1988

HAS

KONG

PAPER AND REFORM

"BY TAKING A PRAGMATIC AND PRACTICAL APPROACH, THE WHITE

CLEARLY THE DEPICTED

POLITICAL SITUATION IN HONG PRESENTED US A BROAD GUIDELINE AS TO WHAT COURSE OUR POLITICAL SHOULD FOLLOW, HE SAID.

ΤΟ THE HONG KONG

"WHAT WE SHOULD DO NOW IS TO ACTIVELY COMMIT OURSELVES PRACTICAL WORK OF DEVELOPING A FUTURE POLITICAL SYSTEM FOR WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK PRESCRIBED IN THE WHITE PAPER, HE ADDED.

"

SELECT COMMITTEE STRUCTURE PROPOSED

DEBATE ON DR CHAM REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, THOUGHT MUST BE GIVEN

TO DEVELOPING A CONFORMITY WITH THE ELECTED LEGISLATURE DECLARATION.

DURING THE

SELECT

THE EXISTING IN THE COUNCIL

SERIOUS CONSIDERATIOIN SHOULD BE GIVEN TO INTRODUCING A

FROM EVOLVING COMMITTEE STRUCTURE FOR THE LEGISLATURE, LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL PANELS, DR THE HON KIM CHAM SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

SPEAKING

SAID

THE WHITE PAPER ON

AHEAD, THAT LOOKING

MORE IN STRUCTURE GOVERNMENT PROVIDED FOR IN THE JOINT

HE SAID THE GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE MUST PUBLIC

ΤΟ AND RESPONSIVE

COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE FELL BELOW PUBLIC EXPECTATION, IMPOSED.

BE

SOME

ACCOUNTABLE NEEDS. ABOVE ALL,

DISCIPLINE

TO THE WHEN ITS MUST BE

DEPTH

EXISTING LEGCO PANELS ALREADY EXAMINED SPECIAL ISSUES IN AND ALSO LOOKED AT LEGISLATION AFTER BILLS WERE PUBLISHED, HE NOTED.

CHAIRMAN AS A FIRST STEP TOWARDS CHANGE HE SUGGESTED THAT THE

THE COUNCIL. THIS OF A SELECT COMMITTEE SHOULD INTRODUCE BILLS INTO WOULD ENSURE THAT A BILL HAD SUPPORT BEFORE ITS INTRODUCTION.

SHOULD ANSWER AS A SECOND STEP, THE SELECT COMMITTER CHAIRMAN

HAVING THIS WOULD AVOID THE PITFALL OF QUESTIONS IN THE LEGISLATURE. COUNCILLORS WHO SERVED ONLY TO CRITICISE THE GOVERNMENT.

WILL ᏴᎬ IMPLEMENTATION,"

"THIS DIRECT INVOLVEMENT WILL ENSURE THAT COUNCILLORS MONITORED AND RESPONSIBLE FOR LEGISLATION AS WELL AS HE SAID.

HE SAID HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE URBAN COUNCIL WAS THAT COMMITTEE DID WORK WELL WHEN SUPPORTED BY A CAPABLE TEAM OF

A SELECT OFFICERS.

/THE GROUP