Appendix I
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.
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The objective of the Office is to provide Her Majesty's Govern- ment 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 Assess- Bent Office will :
4.
(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 assess 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 over- all assessment of the 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.
The Assessment Office shall allow access to every aspect of its work by the Monitoring Team appointed by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
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