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Speech by the Hon. P.K.Y. Tsao, CPM, JP, Secretary for Administrative Services and Information in Legislative Council on Wednesday, 12 June 1985

Public Bodies (Confirmation of Appointed Members) (Temporary Provisions) Bill 1985

Revised

Sir,

I move that the Public Bodies (Confirmation of Appointed Members) (Temporary Provisions) Bill 1985

be read a second time.

arises

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It is

is not without some embarrassment that I

the bill

a result of an

the part of the

as

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unfortunate oversight

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Administration

conducted organisations and for which responsibility.

the sort that occurs in the best of

must accept

The purpose of the bill is to regularise the position of one Urban Council member and four District

Board members who have been found to have been

invalidly appointed to

appointed to these bodies. The invalidity of their appointments stems from the fact that the Urban Council and District Boards Ordinances provide that no person may be appointed to membership unless

he is registered as an elector under the Electoral Provisions Ordinance, that is to say, as an elector on the general electoral roll. It has recently been discovered that the five persons mentioned in the bill are not so registered.

I shall mention that the legal status of these five members does not invalidate any acts already performed by them in the respective bodies.