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THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1994

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GOVERNOR: I THINK THE HONOURABLE MEMBER HAS TO BE AS CAREFUL AS I WAS HE SUGGESTING HONOURABLE MEMBERS FROM ANOTHER PARTY NEEDED TO BE WHEN

VOTE AND MAKES SUGGESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IS A REASONABLE OUTCOME FOR A WHAT IS AN UNREASONABLE OUTCOME, I THINK HE ALSO HAS TO BE CAREFUL IN THE IMPLICATION BEHIND HIS QUESTION THAT SOME LEGISLATORS' VOTES WORTH MORE THAN OTHERS, WHICH I KNOW 18 ARGUED FROM BOTH SIDES OF FENCE FROM TIME TO TIME, IF FENCE IT BE. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER THAT EVERY LEGISLATOR IN THIS COUNCIL HAS A RIGHT TO CAST A VOTE THERE'RE THREE LEGISLATORS WHO ARE HERE AS EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OF COUNCIL AT THE END OF DEBATE YESTERDAY CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE WHAT BILL WHICH WAS EMERGING WASN'T ONE WHICH THEY WISHED TO SUPPORT. ACTUALLY HAPPENED

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, A WAS

MAJORITY LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, DECIDED THAT THAT BILL SHOULDN'T PROCEED IT DIDN'T REFLECT THE CONSENSUS WHICH IS NORMALLY REACHED ON THESE MATTERS IN THE LAB. IT SEEMS TO BE THAT IS A

REASONABLE PERFECTLY

WOULD HAVE VIEW FOR THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TO COME TO, THOUGH I WISHED THAT A BILL AGREED BY THE WHOLE COUNCIL COULD HAVE EMERGED.

IN A BUT I DON'T HONESTLY THINK THE HONOURABLE MEMBER CAN CELEBRATE MODESTLY RAPTUROUS WAY LAST WEEK'S RESULT AND THEN CONCLUDE THAT IT. YESTERDAY'S RESULT WASN'T ACCEPTABLE BECAUSE HE DIDN'T AGREE WITH 1 HOPE THAT WE CAN FIND A CONSENSUAL APPROACH TO THESE IMPORTANT

PLAINLY MATTERS OF LABOUR WELFARE AND LABOUR REFORM. IS THE WAY WE HAVE DONE BUSINESS IN THE PAST. 1 THINK IT REFLECTS THE

THERE VIEWS

IS OF

WHICH THE COMMUNITY, IT REFLECTS A COMMUNITY IN HAPPILY VERY LITTLE INDUSTRIAL UNREST AND I VERY MUCH HOPE THAT WE CAN WILL BE COME BACK WITH PROPOSALS VERY SOON WHICH THE WHOLE COUNCIL ABLE TO GIVE ITS NAME TO. I'M SORRY THAT YESTERDAY WE WEREN'T ABLE TO FIND A REACH AGREEMENT. I'M SORRY THAT THE LAB'S PROPOSALS DIDN'T

FORWARD PLACE ON THE STATUTE BOOK, BUT I HOPE WE'LL BE ABLE TO MOVE AND FIND AN ACCEPTABLE WAY THROUGH THESE PROBLEMS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

MATTERS,

THAT

WHETHER OPERATION

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MR ALBERT CHAN (THROUGH INTERPRETER): I WASN'T ASKING ABOUT THE BILL WAS PASSED. I WAS ASKING ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF THE

THE COUNCIL. MR GOVERNOR, IN UK YOU HAVE BEEN THE PARTY CHIEF TO

CONSERVATIVE PARTY AND SO YOU MUST HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE OF THE PARLIAMENT WHEN A BILL IS PUT FORWARD BY THE ADMINISTRATION, AND WHEN AN AMENDMENT IS ALSO PROPOSED BY THE ADMINISTRATION.

AFTER

WELL AS 1T HAS CLEARED THE FIRST READING AND THE SECOND READING, AS THE COMMITTEE STAGE, AS A RESPONSIBLE ADMINISTRATION WHY IS IT THAT AT THE THIRD READING THE ADMINISTRATION REFUSES TO MOVE IT AND SO DO YOU THINK THAT THAT IS IN LINE WITH THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY AS UNDERSTAND IT AND IN LINE WITH THE INSTITUTE OF UNDERSTAND IT.

YOU

DEMOCRACY

AS

YOU

/GOVERNOR