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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1992

"ON THE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT, IT ASSISTANCE TO THOSE STAFF WHO WISH TO SEEK INCOMING OPERATORS, OR OTHER EMPLOYMENT IN SAID.

THE

WILL

PROVIDE FULL EMPLOYMENT WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR, HE

"I

THE MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS WILL BE FOR THREE YEARS INITIALLY AND WILL BE RENEWABLE.

"THE GOVERNMENT WILL RETAIN CONTROL OVER THE TUNNEL TOLLS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF THE OPERATORS, HE EMPHASISED.

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LEGCO FUNCTIONING WELL: SCA

GOINGS ON IN THE NEW MUCH HAS BEEN SAID RECENTLY ABOUT THE

THE CIVIL SERVICE, BUT STYLE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND ITS IMPACT ON THE FACT IS THAT LEGCO DOES GET ON WITH ITS JOB AND THE GOVERNMENT COPING WELL WITH THE CHANGES.

IS

THE SECRETARY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, MR MICHAEL SZE, THIS AT A LUNCHEON MEETING TODAY (TUESDAY).

SAID

MR SZE SAID APART FROM THE COMPOSITION RETURNED, THE NEW STYLE LEGCO HAD NOT CHANGED AT ALL.

AND HOW MEMBERS

WERE

"ITS FUNCTIONS AND POWERS HAD REMAINED THE SAME.

MORE POWERS THAN "THE NEW STYLE LEGCO DOES NOT HAVE ANY PREDECESSOR. WHAT IT HAS DONE IS TO EXERCISE THE POWERS IT ALWAYS

AND AGGRESSIVELY, HE SAID.

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ITS

HAD

APPOINTED ALL MR SZE NOTED THAT IN THE PAST WHEN THE GOVERNOR

TENDED EITHER ΤΟ BE ESTABLISHMENT A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE

· OR MOST OF THE MEMBERS, FIGURES OR PERSONS ALREADY GOVERNMENT WORKED.

THESE

WITH

A CERTAIN DEGREE OF UNDERSTANDING AND TRUST BETWEEN THEM AND THE CIVIL SERVICE. IT WAS CONSENSUS THAN THE MORE USUAL ADVERSARIAL POLITICS.

IN

THE

NEW

THEREFORE EXISTED POLITICS RATHER

OF THE DIRECTLY

SOME BACKGROUND.

HAVE

ELECTED SAT SOCIAL

STYLE LEGCO, MOST FROM COUNCILLORS CAME

A DIFFERENT FREQUENTLY ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE TABLE FROM OFFICIALS ON AND OTHER ISSUES IN THEIR PRE-COUNCILLOR DAYS.

EXPECT

"IT IS DIFFICULT AND INDEED UNREALISTIC FOR US TO TO TAKE GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS, HOWEVER WELL-INTENTIONED, WITH THE DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE," HE SAID.

THEM SAME

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