TNAG-1331-FCO40-1758-Future-of-Hong-Kong-test-of-the-acceptability-of-the-Joint-D-1984 — Page 177

(b)

SECREile

5 -

made it our business to become acquainted with

the individual members of the Office, and to

observe, without interfering, how they were

performing their duties.

Throughout the consultation period we carried

out spot checks of the way in which the Assessment

Office was implementing its procedures

Agata

that

is, the processes of collecting the letters

and submissions from P.O. 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.

(d)

We attended, as observers, the regular meetings

held twice a week by the Commissioner as a basis

for reviewing progress and considering the latest

batches of analytical assessments by the Assessment

Office.

When the Assessment Office came to prepare its report, we arranged to see drafts at the appropriate stage for

the purpose of raising any queries we wished and making

a timely start with the drafting of our own report.

10.

We discharged our witnessing function by attending