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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1990

ENTRENCHING HE SAID IDEAS FOR CONVENTIONAL

SUCH METHODS,

SPECIAL MAJORITY VOTING, WERE NOT PURSUED BECAUSE THE BASIC LAW

AS

OPTIONS BY

то THE

PASSAGE

MIGHT REASON OF ITS OWN OF BILLS AND OTHER

BE SAID IMPLIEDLY TO RULE OUT THESE

DETAILED PROVISIONS LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURES.

RELATING

THE ICCPR

PERIOD LAW

RIGHTS FOR THE A FORM OF ENTRENCHMENT OF

39 OF THE BASIC AFTER 1997 WAS ALREADY TO BE FOUND IN ARTICLE WHICH REPEATED THE PROVISION IN THE JOINT DECLARATION THAT WOULD CONTINUE TO APPLY AND WENT ON TO SAY THAT THE BE IMPLEMENTED THROUGH THE LAWS OF HONG KONG.

THE ICCPR COVENANT WAS TO

WAS TO MIRROR OF ENTRENCHMENT PROBLEM THE SOLUTION TO THE

KONG'S PRINCIPAL CONSTITUTIONAL ARTICLE 39 OF THE BASIC LAW IN HONG

WHICH WOULD BE AMENDED SO AS TO PATENT, LETTERS DOCUMENT, THE

NOT COMPETENT ENTRENCH THE PRINCIPLE THAT THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IS

AND FREEDOMS OF TO ENACT LAWS WHICH ABRIDGE THE RIGHTS HONG KONG IN A WAY WHICH IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE ICCPR.

THIS WILL ENABLE THE COURTS TO REVIEW LAWS TO INFRINGE THE BILL OF RIGHTS, MR MATHEWS SAID,

PERSONS

IN

WHICH

ARE ALLEGED

-

0

-

$428M CONTRACT FOR SEWAGE TREATMENT SCHEME AWARDED

THE

CONSTRUCTION WILL START SHORTLY ON THE MAJOR CIVIL WORK OF

AND DISPOSAL

HAS SCHEME WHICH NORTH WEST KOWLOON SEWAGE TREATMENT

QUALITY OFF THE WEST KOWLOON BEEN DESIGNED TO IMPROVE COASTLINE AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S COMMITMENT TO POLLUTION CONTROL.

WATER THE

TODAY AWARDED

(WEDNESDAY)

LARGEST OF SEVEN LET BY THE DRAINAGE

A $428 MILLION CONTRACT, THE SIXTH AND THE SCHEME, UNDER SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

WAS

THIS SIGNED IT WAS FORMALLY

SAUNDERS, DRAINAGE SERVICES, MR C.R. CONTRACTOR.

AND

AFTERNOON

A

BY THE DIRECTOR

OF REPRESENTATIVE

OF THE

OF

THE CONTRACT INVOLVES, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE CONSTRUCTION

AN UNDERWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT FACILITIES ON STONECUTTERS ISLAND AND

FACILITATE TWIN TWO-METRE DIAMETER PUMPED SEWER WHICH WILL BE USED TO SEWERAGE FLOWS FROM CHEUNG SHA WAN FOR TREATMENT ON THE ISLAND.

THE PUMPED SEWERS WILL BE ASSEMBLED ON STONECUTTERS ISLAND PROGRESSIVELY WINCHED ACROSS THE PREPARED SEABED TO CHEUNG SHA WAN, DISTANCE OF OVER ONE KILOMETRE.

THE IS

OF LARGEST

AND

A

THE

ITS KIND IN

OF 13. 5 CUBIC

THE PIPELINE, WHICH TERRITORY SO FAR, IS DESIGNED FOR A MAXIMUM FLOW RATE METRES PER SECOND.

/MR SAUNDERS