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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1989

OF A BILL OF "WE THEREFORE OPTED FOR A QUICKER INTRODUCTION

A REVIEW OF PERIOD FOR RIGHTS

EXISTING BUT WITH A TRANSITION

THIS

IS EXERCISE OBJECT OF LEGISLATION TO BE CARRIED OUT. THE REMOVE UNCERTAINTIES IN EXISTING LEGISLATION.

"I SHOULD POINT OUT, HOWEVER, THAT THIS TRANSITION PERIOD NOT APPLY TO NEW LEGISLATION ENACTED AFTER THE PASSAGE OF RIGHTS."

OF RIGHTS,

ΤΟ

WILL

A BILL OF

MR MATHEWS ON THE QUESTION OF ENTRENCHING THE BILL

MATTER WHICH REQUIRED SAID THE PRECISE METHOD OF ENTRENCHMENT WAS A SPECIAL ATTENTION AND A DECISION WOULD BE MADE SOON.

SUCH HE EXPLAINED THAT ENTRENCHMENT MEANT ENACTING THE BILL IN

PRIMACY AND WOULD A WAY AS TO ENSURE THAT THE JUDICIARY ACCORDED IT

INTERPRET

KONG LAWS AND STRIVE TO

PRACTICES IN

ACCORDANCE WITH IT.

ALL OTHER HONG

OPENING OF RIGHTS WOULD GIVE OF THE INTERNATIONAL

AS ANNOUNCED BY THE GOVERNOR IN HIS ADDRESS AT THE THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SESSION, THE BILL OF EFFECT IN LOCAL LAW TO THE RELEVANT PROVISIONS COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS, MR SUEN SAID.

A

STATEMENT

OF

RIGHTS

CAPABLE

OF

BEING

"THE BILL WILL BE PROTECTED AND ENFORCED BY AN INDIVIDUAL THROUGH ACTION IN THE COURTS.

WHO ANYONE

CLAIMS

"

HE ADDED.

THAT

CIVIL THEIR

OR WILL

"THIS MEANS THAT POLITICAL RIGHTS, AS DEFINED IN THE COVENANT, HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BE ABLE TO SEEK REDRESS IN THE COURTS,

BILL WOULD WHICH IT WOULD

MR SUEN POINTED OUT THAT THE GOVERNOR HAD SAID THE PROVIDE FOR A SPECIFIC PERIOD AFTER ENACTMENT DURING NOT OVERRIDE EXISTING LEGISLATION.

BE DECIDED LATER, "THE DURATION WOULD EXISTING LEGISLATION IS FURTHER ADVANCED.

ONCE

THE REIVEW

OF

IS PERIOD' 'FREEZE "THE PURPOSE OF THIS CONSIDER THE NECESSITY FOR AMENDING EXISTING REMOVE ANY UNCERTAINTIES," MR SUEN SAID.

TO ALLOW TIME LEGISLATION, SO AS

TO

ΤΟ

-

OLD AGE GOLDEN PHASE OF LIFE

* * * * *

LIFE, THE DEPUTY

(FRIDAY).

OLD AGE CAN BE VIEWED AS A COLDEN PERIOD OF DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MRS ROSE GOODSTADT, SAID TODAY

CEREMONY

OF THE FOURTH GOOSTADT IN MANY

PRIZE PRESENTATION SPEAKING AT THE SPEECH CONTEST FOR THE ELDERLY ORGANISED BY YAN QI TONG, MRS SHARED THE VIEW THAT ELDERLY PEOPLE CONTINUED TO CONTRIBUTE AREAS TO THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.

/"OLD AGE