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MOTION ON PUBLIC FUNDS PASSED

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1993

THE

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY) PASSED A MOTION PROVIDING FUNDS ON ACCOUNT TO ENABLE THE GOVERNMENT ΤΟ CARRY ON EXISTING SERVICES BETWEEN THE START OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR ON APRIL 1 AND THE ENACTMENT OF THE APPROPRIATION BILL.

THE FUNDS AMOUNT TO ABOUT $50.6 BILLION.

THE MOTION WAS MOVED BY THE SECRETARY FOR THE TREASURY, MR K Y YEUNG UNDER THE PUBLIC FINANCE ORDINANCE.

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PARENT AND CHILD BILL PASSED

THE PARENT AND CHILD BILL, WHICH AIMED AT ILLEGITIMATE CHILD WOULD, SO FAR AS PRACTICABLE, LAW IN THE SAME

AS A LEGITIMATE CHILD, LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

WAY

ENSURING THAT AN BE TREATED

BY

THE WAS PASSED IN THE

BILL, THE ATTORNEY RANGE OF

MAINTENANCE

SPEAKING AT THE RESUMED DEBATE OF THE GENERAL, THE HON JEREMY MATHEWS, SAID THE SAME ORDERS WAS MADE AVAILABLE IN RESPECT OF BOTH LEGITIMATE AND BY AMENDING THE GUARDIANSHIP OF MINORS

ILLEGITIMATE ORDINANCE.

CHILDREN

ORIGINALLY THE BILL SOUGHT TO ACHIEVE THE PURPOSE OF THE MAINTENANCE ORDERS BY AMENDMENTS TO

PROVIDING AFFILIATION PROCEEDINGS

THE

ORDINANCE.

HOWEVER, WHEN THE BILL WAS BEING STUDIED, IT THAT THE AFFILIATION PROCEEDINGS

BECAME APPARENT ORDINANCE MIGHT CONTAIN THAT WERE INCONSISTENT WITH THE BILL OF RIGHTS, MR MATHEWS SAID.

PROVISIONS

HAD THEREFORE PROCEEDINGS WOULD REMAIN

HE SAID THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE DECIDED TO CARRY OUT AN OVERALL REVIEW OF THE AFFILIATION ORDINANCE AS A MATTER OF PRIORITY WHILE THIS UNAMENDED.

ORDINANCE

INSTEAD THE GUARDIANSHIP OF MINORS ORDINANCE ACHIEVE

WAS THE

AMENDED INTENTION

TO OF MAKING AVAILABLE MAINTENANCE ORDERS TO LEGITIMATE AND ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.

THE SAME RANGE OF

MR MATHEWS ALSO NOTED THAT SOME MEMBERS OF GROUP STUDYING THE BILL HAD EXPRESSED RESERVATIONS ON CLAUSES 9 TO

THE LEGCO AD HOC OF THE BILL, WHICH REFERRED TO SURROGACY AND ABOUT THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION OR

OTHER

THIS

WAS AN AREA

OF

THE LAW WHICH RAISED

ETHICS

AND MORALITY.

12 BIRTHS BROUGHT SCIENTIFIC MEANS AS SENSITIVE ISSUES OF

/HE REITERATED