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(3) Social

(4)

(a)

to give urgent attention to extending public assistance

to able-bodied males between 15 and 55 before

1 January 1978;

(b) to extend Hong Kong's social security system by a scheme

of extended benefits agreed to by 1 January 1978 for introduction in a series of steps by the end of 1980;

(c) by 1 January 1978 to make proposals for the improvement

of housing standards on the assumption that programmes will not result in fewer people being housed;

(d)

by 1 January 1979 to have prepared a scheme for the further development of education in the early 1980s.

Institutions

(a) to appoint members of the Legislative Council (and

ultimately the Executive Council) from a progressively wider social background, particularly from the lower income groups (the first steps in this direction being taken by October 1976);

(b)

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(c)

to introduce the payment of allowances to Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils;

to strengthen the existing translation, secretarial and research staff of the office of the Unofficial Members of

the Executive and Legislative Council;

(a) to increase the size of the Legislative Council and

consider differentiating more clearly between the functions of the Executive and Legislative Councils;

(e) to appoint to the Legislative Council a public person-

ality with a close interest in industrial conditions; and to groom suitable figures from the independent trade unions for eventual service on the Council;

(f)

to consider the trades union position further in the light

of the Turner Report.

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