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TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE ASSESSMENT OFFICE

1. The Assessment Office has been set up under the authority of the

Governor of Hong Kong. It is separate from the ordinary machinery

of the Government, and is under the charge of a senior official, to

be known as the Commissioner, Assessment Office, who will report directly to the Governor.

2.

The objective of the office is to provide Her Majesty's

Government and Parliament, through the Governor of Hong Kong, with

an accurate analysis and assessment of opinion in Hong Kong on the

draft agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of

China and Her Majesty's Government, and on the arrangements for the

future of Hong Kong which it will set out.

3. To this end the functions of the Assessment Office shall be as

follows : after publication and distribution in Hong Kong by the

Hong Kong Government of a White Paper containing the draft Agreement

between the Government of the People's Republic of China and Her

Majesty's Government, and of an invitation to comment on its

contents,

the Assessment Office will :

(a) receive all views expressed on the draft Agreement in writing

directly to the office, or indirectly through well established and

familiar consultative channels in Hong Kong and the media;

(b) collate, summarise, analyse and asses S all such views expressed

on the draft Agreement;

assessment of the

(c) submit to the Governor a report which will include factual

summaries of all views expressed and an overall

extent of acceptance by the people of Hong Kong of the draft

agreement;

(d)

carry out such directions as the Governor may from time to time

give to effect these purposes.