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DRAFT SPEECH BY HON CHAN YING-LUN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 26.6.85

Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges) Bill 1985

Committee Stage

Sir,

I move that Clauses 2(1), 8 and 21 be amended as set out in the notice under my name circulated to Members and for the reasons stated in my speech during the second reading of

the Bill1.

Amendments to Clause 8, which I am now moving, have

been the subject of further representations.

The points raised include reservation over the application of Standing Orders to regulate admission, concern over the power of the President to issue administrative instructions without being subjected to resolution of the Council, and worry over the wide scope of instructions for "other administrative purposes".

Unofficial Members studying the Bill have examined these points and consider that the amendments to Clause 8 have

already taken into account these reservations.

The reference to the Standing Orders in regulating

admission was an amendment made at the request of public representations, one of which was the H.K. Journalists

Association. We do not therefore subscribe to the suggestion

that it should be deleted from the Clause although it is widely

accepted they require a total review.

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