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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1990

HER MOTION READS:

OF RIGHTS "THAT THIS COUNCIL SUPPORTS THE ENACTMENT OF A BILL

DRAFTING THE BLUE BILL TO TAKE INTO AND URGES THE GOVERNMENT IN ACCOUNT THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THIS COUNCIL.

+

HOC GROUP ON THE

IN

MRS CHOW, WHO WAS CONVENER OF THE LEGCO AD BILL OF RIGHTS 1990, OUTLINED THE KEY POINTS ON THE BILL CONTAINED THE GROUP'S REPORT.

BILL

STATUS ABSOLUTE

OF SHE SAID WHILE SOME MEMBERS FELT THAT THE RIGHTS PROTECTED UNDER THE

SHOULD OVERRIDE OTHER RIGHTS AND MAJORITY OF MEMBERS TOWERS FOUND TO BE IN CONFLICT, AN OVERWHELMING

WAYS SHARED THE CONCERN VOICED BY MANY QUARTERS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT SHOULD BE FOUND TO ACCOMMODATE BOTH THESE RIGHTS AND NECESSARY POWERS

LAW FOR THE WITHIN THE

OF EFFECTIVE PROTECTION

THE COMMUNITY, ΤΟ MAINTENANCE OF LAW AND PALTARLY IN MATTERS RELATED EFFECTIVE IMMIGRATION CONTROL AND ANTI-CORRUPTION MEASURES.

HONG

ORDER,

KONG'S

DOES

PRESENTLY MIRRORING

THE

"GIVEN THE SUPREMACY OF THE BASIC LAW AS CONSTITUTION AT THE CHANGE OF SOVEREIGNTY," MRS CHOW SAID "THERE

OTHER OPTION OPEN TO US EXCEPT THE ONE NOT SFIM ANY PROPOSED: I.E. A FORM OF SO-CALLED INDIRECT ENTRENCHMENT BY

AN WITH

AMENDMENT IN ARTOLE 39 OF CHAPTER 3 OF THE BASIC LAW LETERS PATENT."

AND EXISTING

SHE NOTED THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BILL LEGISLATION WAS ONE OF THE MORE CONTROVERSIAL AREAS TO BE EXAMINED BY THE GROUP WHICH MAINLY CONCERNED THE QUESTION OF WHAT SHOULD IF POWERS OF THE EXECUTIVE, IN PARTICULAR

ENFORCEMENT WERE CONSIDERED TO BE IN CONFLICT WITH THE BILL.

LAW

BE DONE AGENCIES,

THE COMMON SHE SAID EVENTUALLY MEMBERS WERE ABLE TO ARRIVE AT GROUVO THAT POWERS WHICH WERE CONSIDERED REASONABLE IN THE CONTEXT

COULD PROBABLY BE PROVIDED BY A IKIOCRATIC SOCIETY ACCOMMODATED UNDER THE BILL OF RIGHTS.

OF LAW AND BE

ON THE FREEZE PERIOD, MRS CHOW SAID MEMBERS RECOGNISED THAT

WERE AND

PREPARED ΤΟ ACCEPT THERE MIGHT BE A NEED FOR FLEXIBILITY, ONE YEAR WITH ONE RENEWAL OF A FURTHER YEAR IF NECESSARY.

"MEMBERS WOULD ALSO REQUEST THAT ADMINISTRATION

10 ADOPT THE IF WHICH,

NOT FROZEN APPROACH OF PARTIAL FREEZE OF ONLY THOSE LAWS BEFORE AMENDMENT OR REPLACEMENT, MAY CREATE

VACUUMS LEGISLAT! *E CAUSING INSTABILITY OR CHAOS TO THE SYSTEM.

THAT

"I

BE WHILE THE PRINCIPLE OF THE COVENANT TO

APPLICABLE BETWEEN

SUPPORTED, INDIVIDUALS AS WELL AS INDIVIDUALS AND GOVERNMENT WAS WELL MR "HOW SAID MEMBERS WERE PERSUADED

A STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH, LEAVING INTER-CITIZEN RIGHTS TO BE INCORPORATED AT A LATER STAGE, PROBABLY A MORE SENSIBLE AND PRACTICAL METHOD TO ADOPT.

WAS

THE MRS CHOW POINTED OUT THAT EMERGING FROM THE DISCUSSIC BJL.

CLEAR T. THE

CALL FOR THE

RIGHTS SETTING UP OF A HUMAN

PROPOSAL COM ASION. THE GROUP CONCLUDED THAT THE

DESERVED DETAILED STUD! AND HOPED THAT GOVERNMENT WOULD

ITS INVESTIGATE

ON

C

PRACTICABILITY.

/THE GROUP