DRAFT SPRECA-BY HON STEPHEN CHLONG, OBE, JP
DRAFT COPY
COUNCIL
12.6.85
Tegislativo Council (Bbvore and Privileges) Bill 1985
This draft is subject to amendment and
must not be published or broadcast
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without being checked against the speech
as delivered by the speakerong must be
place blessed with very good "Fung
Shvá": Bomehow, we alwaya zonage to have the right group of people with the right calibre responding to our ever changing needs and contributing positively tovardo our future
developments.
Take this bill for oxample, prior to roceiving the very belated ovalanche of comments on the provision of this bill, Mombers of the in-house Ad Hoc Group, especially thoce who bave had little or no legal training, were so overwhelmod by the dryness of the subject matter that we were unable to detect some very controversial yet important drafting
over-sights.
Even the public responge vap relatively docile from éhe date of the Gazetting of the Bill to just about a few days before the bill was scheduled to be read the second time in
this Chamber. Suddenly then, the subject matter was given an unexpected lift and in this regard the Rong tong AffairsS Society should be commended for their catalytic efforts. Since then, UNBLCD has received representations from no less than 10 groups of public spicited organizations or commentators. Valid pointe raised by these reprecontationo did offer a lot of help in the process of further arystalisation of our thoughts on the subject matter.
For the past 10 days tremendous efforts hive boon spent by us unofficiale as well as the Administration in going over in detail all the observatione submitted to 08. The guiding light of our deliberation has been the underlying principle that the detailed provisions are meant to be a cod i Fiostien opercise of the present practice and that the:
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