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CONFIDENTIAL

Draft Terms of Reference

for the Assessment Office

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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

coming under the charge of a senior official, to be

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

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The objective of the office is to provide Her Majesty's (United Kingdom) Government and Parliament, through the Governor of Hong Kong, with an accurate analysis and assessment of opinion in Hong Kong on

Craft the (initialled) Jagreement 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, before the decision

is taken to sign the Agreement.

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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 United Kingdom White paper containing the dry

Agreement between Her Majesty's Government and of

Land an invitation to comment on its contents, the

Assessment Office will

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