TNAG-1366-FCO40-1812-Hong-Kong-Legislative-Council-(Powers-and-Privileges)-Bill-1-1985 — Page 76

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I should like

general objectives

legislation today.

we

now to return once again to

seek to achieve in moving

the

this

with

The principal objective 1s concerned

identity; the need to establish a clear identity for Hong

Koog; and the Legislative Council of Hong Kong; and to have that identity firmly established in our own Statute law, not

to have

have it diffused in a somewhat unsatisfactory way in various Orders and Ordinances and the case law, procedures

and practices followed by a Parliament thousands of miles

away in the United Kingdom, We need to have our own law,

here, in Hong Kong.

The legislation

19 one of 8 number of practical

designed to establish this identity; this high

degree of autonomy as it has been called in another context.

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These measures have included the alternative form

of Oath endorsed earlier by this Council to enable Members

simply to swear their loyalty to the people of Hong Kong.

This change, io iis turn, removed one of the obstacles to

the introduction of electione to Deadership of this

Council. Then, to enable elections to take place, the Royal

Instructions have been amended; legislation to provide for

various types of election has been introduced and passed

into law. Arrangements are being made to вее that the