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WEDNESDAY,

کی

BEEN

DAVID SAID IN HONG KONG MANY SUCH RIGHTS HAD ALREADY SIR

PROGRAMMES AND CARE OF BY HONG KONG'S EXISTING SOCIAL SERVICE LEGISLATIVE MEASURES.

TAKEN

"FURTHERMORE, WE ARE SATISFIED THAT THE MANY OF THE CIVIL POLITICAL RIGHTS WHICH ARE MADE JUSTICABLE IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS INDEED PROTECT THE ICESCR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, ALBEIT INDIRECTLY, SAID.

AND

WILL

HE

WOULD HAVE SIR DAVID AGREED WITH MRS SELINA CHOW THAT SELECTION OF FROM

TO BE INCLUDED IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS THE ICESCR

ABOUT DEBATE CONSULTATION AND PROLONGED EXTENSIVE ENTAILED RIGHTS SHOULD BE INCLUDED, WHICH EXCLUDED AND THAT THIS DELAYED SIGNIFICANTLY THE ENACTMENT OF THE BILL.

RIGHTS

WHICH

WOULD

HAVE

H

1 TAKE FULL NOTE HOWEVER OF THE CÔNCERN BY MEMBERS ADMINISTRATION SHOULD ADDRESS FURTHER THE QUESTION OF RIGHTS BCONOMIC AND SOCIAL COVENANT,

"

HE SAID.

THAT IN

THE

THE

BILL OF RIGHTS CONSTITUTES STATEMENT OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS: AG

THE ENACTMENT

OF THE

A

AND FREEDOMS,

CONSTITUTE WOULD RIGHTS OF BILL

RIGHTS FUNDAMENTAL STATEMENT IN ONE INSTRUMENT OF JUSTICIABLE BEFORE AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY.

UT ADMINISTRATION

WAS

ALSO AND

SIGNAL OF

ATTACHED BY THE IMPORTANCE THE A

COUNCIL TO THOSE BY MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS THAT SO MUCH TIME HAD BEEN SPENT ON THIS MEASURE.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MR JEREMY MATHEWS, MADE THESE REMARKS THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

KONG

↑

IN

COMMITTEE STAGE WIDE VARIETY OF

SPEAKING ON THE RESUMPTION OF SECOND READING DEBATE ON THE HONG

MR MATHEWS SAID THE BILL OF RIGHTS BILL 1990 AMENDMENTS

BY THEIR NUMBER AND NATURE A REFLECTED CONCERNS,

OF

ΤΟ AS

CLARITY FUNDAMENTAL WORRIES.

"SOME ARE PUT FORWARD TO ALLAY CONCERNS PURPOSE. OTHERS ARE BROADER, REFLECTING MORE

MOST THE WITH TWO HE SAID THE THE QUESTION OF INTER-CITIZEN TO FREEZE. FOR A WHILE, SMALL NUMBER OF EXISTING LAWS.

IMPACT RELATED,

TO THE PROPOSAL RIGHTS AND, SECOND,

ON RIGHTS BILL OF THE OF EFFECT THE

FIRST,

ΤΟ

A

HE ADDED THAT THE ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTED THE AMENDMENTS BE MOVED BY MRS SELINA CHOW IN RESPECT OF THESE TWO ASPECTS.

ΤΟ

HE DREW THE ON THE AMENDMENTS INITIATED BY THE ADMINISTRATION,

BILL: THE CLAUSE ATTENTION OF MEMBERS FIRST TO CLAUSE 2(3) OF THE

OF THE WHICH STIPULATED, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COURTS, THE PURPOSE ORDINANCE.

/HE SAID