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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1992

WORKS IT IS

GOVERNMENT

AND INQUISITIVE

INITIATIVES.

INDEED MORE THERE IS

"NOT BEING FAMILIAR WITH THE WAY THE GOVERNMENT

THEY TEND TO BE MORE NATURAL THAT IN

SUPPORT ΤΟ GIVING CAUTIOUS NOTHING WRONG ABOUT THIS, HE ADDED.

GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO CONSENSUS

HE SAID THE CIVIL SERVICE HAD POLITICS BUT HAD ALSO LEARNED TO COPE WITH THE NEW STYLE LEGCO.

WE MUST IMPROVE OUR "WE HAVE LEARNED THAT

AND TO ANSWER PROPOSALS AND BE PREPARED TO EXPLAIN MORE SO THAN IN THE PAST.

PRESENTATION

QUESTIONS

OF

MUCH

"WE MUST ABOVE ALL BE PREPARED TO LISTEN AND TO ACCEPT THAT

AND BE

то PREPARED HAVE TO GAIN MAJORITY SUPPORT FOR OUR PROPOSALS

WHOSE ATTITUDE HAVE A GREAT LOBBY NOT ONLY MEMBERS BUT THE PUBLIC BEARING ON THE MEMBERS," MR SZE SAID.

WE

MR SZE ALSO REVIEWED THE GOVERNMENT'S SUBMISSIONS TO THE AT THE END OF THE YEAR OF THE RAM.

LEGCO

FINANCE COMMITTEE RE-SUBMITTED

A TOTAL OF 110 PAPERS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE AND ONLY NINE OF WHICH WERE WITHDRAWN. SIX OF THESE WERE AND ALL APPROVED AT SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS.

AT VARIOUS FINANCE

OF 34 BILLS, 15 OF WHICH WERE ENACTED AND THE REST

A SINGLE BY

NOT A THE EXAMINATION

LEGISLATURE. STAGES OF COMMITTEE ITEM OR BILL HAS BEEN REJECTED.

BOOKLET TO EXPLAIN BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE

* * *

AVAILABLE

COPIES OF A BOOKLET TO EXPLAIN IN LAYMAN TERMS BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE 1991 WILL BE MADE BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TOMORROW.

ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (TUESDAY), A

GOVERNMENT

THE BOOKLET, ENTITLED "AN INTRODUCTION TO HONG KONG

HOPEFULLY INCREASE PUBLIC ORDINANCE 1991", WOULD THIS IMPORTANT ORDINANCE AND HEIGHTEN AWARENESS IN DAILY LIVES.

HONG KONG

THE FOR COLLECTION

SPOKESMAN SAID BILL OF RIGHTS UNDERSTANDING OF

OF ITS SIGNIFICANCE

ON SOME OF POINTS, THE OF THE BILL OF

HE SAID AS A RESULT OF MEDIA REPORTS AND COMMENTS THE MORE IMPORTANT COURT CASES INVOLVING BILL OF RIGHTS

SIGNIFICANCE PUBLIC WERE INCREASINGLY AWARE OF THE

RIGHTS.

/"WE PERCEIVE