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WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1988

THE PRESENT AMENDMENT SOUGHT TO ALLOW FOR A FURTHER INCREASE IN THE FLEXIBILITY OF A SHORTER DISSOLUTION BY MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR

A SITTING TO BE HELD FOR URGENT BUSINESS BETWEEN ELECTION DAY AND THE DAY OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE NEW COUNCIL.

MR WONG

SAID MEMBERS BELIEVED THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT THE DISSOLUTION PERIOD OUGHT TO BE AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE.

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"I DO URGE THE ADMINISTRATION TO FURTHER STUDY THE POSSIBILITY OF FURTHER REDUCING THE DISSOLUTION PERIOD TO, SAY, THREE WEEKS BEFORE ELECTION DAY AND, SAY, UP TO TWO WEEKS BEFORE COMMENCEMENT, IS THE CASE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,

HE SAID.

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AS

ON CLAUSE

WHICH PROPOSED TO REPLACE MARGINAL NOTES BY SECTION HEADINGS IN HONG KONG'S LAWS, MR WONG SOUGHT THE GOVERNMENT'S CONFIRMATION THAT SECTION HEADINGS, LIKE MARGINAL NOTES, HAD NO LEGAL EFFECT.

HE ALSO WELCOMED THE CLARIFICATION PROPOSED IN CLAUSE THE FINANCE COMMITTEE COULD SIT DURING A RECESS.

HE ASKED THE GOVERNMENT TO CONFIRM THAT THIS DID NOT THE DISSOLUTION PERIOD EXCEPT WHEN THE COUNCIL WAS RECALLED.

THAT

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SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN EXPENDITURE

ESTIMATES OF

YEAR 1987-88 JACOBS, IN

WAS

THE

A SUMMARY OF ALL CHANGES MADE ΤΟ THE APPROVED EXPENDITURE FOR THE FINAL QUARTER OF THE FINANCIAL TABLED BY THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON PIERS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

BY

HE ADDED THAT ITEMS IN THE SUMMARY HAD BEEN APPROVED EITHER FINANCE COMMITTEE OR UNDER DELEGATED AUTHORITY. THE REPORTED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE IN ACCORDANCE WITH

LATTER HAD BERN OF THE PUBLIC FINANCE ORDINANCE.

SECTION 8(8) (A)

MR JACOBS SAID SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISION OF $1,826.5 MILLION

APPROVED.

WAS

IT WAS FULLY OFFSET EITHER BY SAVINGS UNDER THE SAME HEADS OF EXPENDITURE OR BY DELETION OF FUNDS COMMITMENTS SUBHEADS,

OR OTHER UNDER THE ADDITIONAL

THIS INCLUDED