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3.
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND THE CONSULTATIVE PROCESS
(a) Role of unofficials
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to
I should
this point like at
express my appreciation of the work of the official Members of both the Executive and Legislative Councils. In Hong Kong, Unofficial and it is not Members play an essential representative role: sufficiently widely appreciated that the part which they are fraction of the been to play in this Chamber reflects only a responsibilities which devolve upon them. For examplė, it has been the practice in recent years for an Official Member move most amendments; but the initiative for many of those changes has often come from the Unofficials. During the last Council 75 bills were passed; 19 of those session of this Council 75 bills were amended at the committee stage, with a total of 73 clauses being changed, some of them substantially. wise advice of Unofficial Members, reflecting public concerns,
which led to these changes,
·
of
It was the
the
depth of
4.
the To help public understanding debate behind new legislation we ought to do more in the way of acknowledging the contribution of Unofficial Members
stages
monitoring
in the
of
at all
and
and, indeed,
policies adopted.
in
the
legislative process
legislation passed
at
my
ay request,
the Chief Secretary, at
the Senior. Unofficial
up
a
with the Accordingly
Member, has set concurrence of working party to review the Standing Ordera, conventions practices of this Council so as to achieve, among other things, a moze structured public debate of legislation and exchange of questions and answers, resulting in reflection of the Council's essentially representative role.
5.
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a truer
as
is
The involvement of Unofficial Members in all aspects of the administration of Hong Kong would, I suspect, come
and I Overseas observer;
doubt that it surprise to ad
Their wholly compreheaded by our own. people.
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