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Terms of Reference for the Assessment Office

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

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