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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1992

ON THE TIME AND TOTAL EXPENDITURE REQUIRED MR SZE SAID IT WAS DIFFICULT TO GIVE ESTIMATES.

ESTIMATE

WOULD BE

FOR A REFERENDUM,

POSSIBLE ONLY WHEN MENTIONED

HE SAID A MEANINGFUL THERE WERE SPECIFIC PROROSALS ON THE VARIOUS CONSIDERATIONS ABOVE.

THE QUESTION MR SZE ADDED THAT REGISTERED BEFORE A REFERENDUM COULD BE DECISION HAD BEEN MADE ON THE FRANCHISE.

HOW OF

LOOKED

то VOTERS WERE

BE INTO ONLY AFTER A

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COMPOSITION OF FUTURE LEGCO

THE GOVERNMENT HAS

NOT TAKEN A VIEW FOR THE MOMENT AS

BASIC THE

REGARDS

LAW, WHICH INVOLVES

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTICLE 67 OF SOME COMPLICATED QUESTIONS TO WHICH THE ANSWERS ARE NOT YET AVAILABLE.

FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS,

BY QUESTION

THE HON EMILY

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY MR MICHAEL SZE, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A LAU IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THAT PERMANENT RESIDENTS

ARTICLE 67 OF THE BASIC LAW STATES

CHINESE OF THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION WHO ARE NOT OF

FOREIGN COUNTRIES MAY NATIONALITY OR WHO HAVE THE RIGHT OF ABODE IN

COUNCIL OF THE REGION, ALSO BE ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE

EXCEED 20 PER PROVIDED THAT THE PROPORTION OF SUCH MEMBERS DOES NOT CENT OF THE TOTAL MEMBERSHIP OF THE COUNCIL.

LAW

AS WHICH, BETWEEN US AND

"FOR EXAMPLE, ONE SUCH QUESTION RELATES TO THE DEFINITION OF A CHINESE NATIONAL UNDER THE CHINESE MEMBERS ARE THE CHINESE SIDE, MR SZE SAID.

AWARE, IS A

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MATTER BEING

NATIONALITY DISCUSSED

"UNTIL WE ARE CLEAR ON THESE IMPORTANT AND

IT WOULD BE PREMATURE FOR US TO SAY ANY PROVISION OF THE BASIC LAW," HE SAID.

COMPLICATED ISSUES MORE ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR

TALKS ON CEMENT PLANT RELOCATION UNDER WAY

NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE OWNERS ARE BEING CONDUCTED WITH A VIEW TO RELOCATING THE KENNEDY TOWN CEMENT PLANT AND AN ALTERNATIVE SITE IS BEING SOUGHT, THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, MR TONY EASON, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY DR THE HON YEUNG SUM, MR EASON SAID THE ABOVE PROCESS WAS EXPECTED TO TAKE ANOTHER THREE MONTHS OR SO AND THEREAFTER IT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE то DETERMINE WHEN RELOCATION COULD BE COMPLETED.

OF

THE

THE ADMINISTRATION RECOGNISE THE INCOMPATIBILITY KENNEDY TOWN CEMENT PLANT WITH ITS SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT, HE ADDED.

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