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of July 1984 on "The Further Development of

Representative Government in Hong Kong"; and

we attended a presentation, arranged at our

request, of the assessment procedures it planned

to apply. We also made it our business to become

acquainted with the individual members of the

Assessment Office, and to observe, without

interfering, how they were performing their

duties.

(b) Throughout the consultation period we carried

out spot checks of the way in which the Assessment

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Office was implementing its procedures that

is, the processes of collecting the letters

and submissions from P.0. Box 9000, of registering,

translating, analysing and assessing them; and

finally of disposing of them with the required

safeguards for confidentiality.

(c)

We arranged to receive and scrutinise ourselves

all the letters, submissions, media reports

and articles received as a basis for checking

the accuracy and the impartiality with which

the Assessment Office was making its daily analyses

and assessments.