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.
the
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 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
its Majesty's Government, and of an invitation to
contents,
the Assessment Office will :
on comment
(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;
(c) submit to the Governor a report which will include factual summaries of all views expressed and an overall assessment of the
extent of
of the draft acceptance by the people of Hong Kong
agreement;
•
(a)
carry out such directions as the Governor may from time to time
give to effect these purposes.
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