TNAG-0201-FCO40-237-Local-government-reforms-1969 — Page 111

ANNEX

SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS IN MR. W. V. DICKINSON'S

REPORT ON LOCAL ADMINISTRATION IN HONG KONG

The City Council

(a)

(b)

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(c)

(a)

(e)

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would have twenty-two elected, twenty nominated members, would select own chairman;

would be elected on present franchise to start, limited

to residents of urban area;

would have initially certain new non-mandatory and

non-exclusive powers

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clinics, schools, adult education,

personal welfare service, car parks;

would have wider licensing duties, and be given wide discretion in interpreting the limits of its powers;

would have significant freedom in determining its revenue (shares of rates, fees, service charges, plus grants-in-aid for schools etc. and loan-raising powers);

(f) would be consulted on appointments to key posts and could

lay down policies within which staff must work;

(g) would be subject to general control or inspection by

(h)

government (through Home Secretary) of major projects, records, bye-laws and procedures, to financial control (through approval of rates, estimates, loans and major tenders, and through audit), and to dissolution or loss

of function in case of misfeasance;

should be bi-lingual and develop the "ward system" (eventually if practical by electoral districts).

/The Tsuen Wan Authority