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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1988

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"AS THE CPU WILL NOT ITSELF BE A POLICY BRANCH OR AN DEPARTMENT, CLEARLY IT WILL NOT HAVE RESPONSIBILITY POLICY," SIR DAVID EXPLAINED.

EXECUTIVE FOR IMPLEMENTING

THE

SIR

THAT

COMMENTING ON SPECULATION THAT THE CPU MIGHT SOMEHOW USURP THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, ROLE OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OR EVEN

NO QUESTION WHATSOEVER OF DAVID STRESSED THAT THERE COULD BE HAPPENING.

THE

PURELY ADVISORY, "ALTHOUGH IN THEORY THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL IS

GIVEN THAT DECISION-MAKING BODY IT IS IN PRACTICE A CORPORATE GOVERNOR INVARIABLY ACTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COUNCIL'S ADVICE.

"THE CPU

POLICY BODY.

PROPOSALS

THE TO THE

IS NOT A DECISION-MAKING

WITHIN CONSIDERED INITIALLY BE WILL EMERGING FROM THE UNIT ADMINISTRATION AND WILL THEN, WHERE APPROPRIATE, BE SUBMITTED GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION AND DECISION.

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WAS TAKEN FOLLOWING

SIR DAVID POINTED OUT THAT IF A DECISION THE ADVICE OF THE CPU WHICH REQUIRED THE ENACTMENT OF

OF APPROVAL THE THE ALLOCATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS, COUNCIL WOULD HAVE TO BE SOUGHT IN THE NORMAL WAY.

LEGISLATION OR

THE

LEGISLATIVE

AS REGARDS THE ORGANISATION AND STAFFING OF THE CPU, SIR ENVISAGED THAT THE UNIT WOULD BE ORGANISED IN A FLEXIBLE WAY.

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DAVID

MEMBERS

ABOUT FOUR FULL-TIME THERE WILL BE A SMALL CORE OF

FORM PART OF THE IN FROM WITH A NUMBER OF SUPPORTING STAFF, AND THEY WILL CIVIL SERVICE ALTHOUGH SOME OF THEM WILL PROBABLY BE BROUGHT OUTSIDE THE GOVERNMENT.

"THERE WILL ALSO BE A NUMBER OF PART-TIME MEMBERS, WHO DRAWN FROM WITHIN AS WELL AS OUTSIDE THE CIVIL SERVICE. SOME

WORK OF THE UNIT WOULD PARTICIPATE REGULARLY IN THE WOULD BE BROUGHT IN ON AN AD HOC BASIS.

"THE MEMBERS, BOTH FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME, WILL

WHILE

MAY BE OF THEM OTHERS

BE APPOINTED

BY THE GOVERNOR,

SIR DAVID SAID.

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