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SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 1994

PREPARATORY WORK FOR 1995 ELECTIONS

ON THE AMENDMENTS COMPOSITION OF THE 1995 LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, MR NICHOLAS NG,

ROUTINE

COMMENTING ON THE SUNDAY MORNING POST STORY TO THE LETTERS PATENT ON THE COUNCIL, THE SECRETARY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL

THAT THIS (SUNDAY} SAID TODAY STEP IN THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS.

PREPARATORY

WAS A

"THE CURRENT LETTERS PATENT SETS OUT

THAT

THREE EX-OFFICIO IS, EXISTING LEGCO,

THIS HAS TO MEMBERS AND 39 ELECTED MEMBERS. WITH THE NEW STRUCTURE TO BE PUT IN PLACE IN

THE COMPOSITION OF THE

MEMBERS,

18

APPOINTED

BE 1995,

T

(HANGED

TIE IN MR NG EXPLAINED.

TO

"THE

GOVERNMENT

HAS

PROPOSED

THAT

SHOULD

AS

THE 1995 LEGCO GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES, CONSIST OF 60 ELECTED MEMBERS: 20 FROM 30 FROM FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES AND 10 BY AN ELECTION COMMITTEE, CONSISTENT WITH THE BASIC LAW.

'A BILL HAS BEEN DRAFTED ON THIS BASIS AND BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL." MR NG SAID.

TO

IS BEING EXAMINED

BEEN TAKEN

THE WAY TO PAVE HAVE STEPS "IN PARALLEL,

NEW STRUCTURE PENDING THE AMEND THE LETTERS PATENT TO REFLECT THIS CONCLUSION OF THE DEBATE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNC11..

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MR NG STRESSED HOWEVER THAT NO AMENDMENT TO THE LETTERS COULD TAKE EFFECT UNTIL IT WAS GAZETTED IN HONG KONG.

PATENT

GAZETTE

ON

THE

"AND IT IS NOT, NOR HAS IT EVER BEEN, OUR INTENTION TO AFTER THE BILL UNTIL PROVISIONS PATENT THE NEW LETTERS

HE EXPLAINED. COMPOSITION OF THE 1995 LEGCO HAS BEEN PASSED,

BEEN ANY QUESTION OF THE "SO IT IS NOT AND THERE HAS NEVER

ON THIS MATTER IN GOVERNMENT PRE-JUDGING THE OUTCOME OF THE DEBATE LEGCO.

WHICH TAKES TIME,

ΤΟ IS NECESSARY "SUCH PREPARATORY WORK,

PLACE IN TIME TO ALLOW ENSURE ALL THE STATUTORY PROVISIONS ARE IN

ΤΟ PROCEED," HE PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE 1995 LEGCO ELECTIONS SAID.

WILLIAM FUNG TO LEAD DELEGATION TO 10TH PECC MEETING

MR.

FOR PACIFIC DELEGATION

WILLIAM FUNG, CHAIRMAN OF HONG KONG COMMITTEE

(SUNDAY) LEAD A HONG KONG ECONOMIC COOPERATION, WELL TODAY { TO ATTEND THE 10TH GENERAL MEETING OF THE PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION COUNCIL (PECC) IN KUALA LUMPUR.

THE

1980 WITH PECC IS A NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION FOUNDED IN

TRADE AND ECONOMIC AIMS OF DEVELOPING CLOSER CO-OPERATION IN 1SSUES IN THE PACIFIC REGION.

MEMBER COMMITTEES OF PECC ARE TRIPARTITE IN NATURE,

BUSINESS LEADERS AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.

OF ACADEMICS,

/HONG KONG

CONSISTING