Date
Statements by Chinese
Officials
BASIC LAW (216)
Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist
Communist
Statements/Comments by others
11.9.85 (cont'd)
12.9.85
13.9.85
Tin Tin Daily News: The drafting committee members should have the right to replace those BLCC members who are found to be harmful to
the consultation
process.
Ta Kung Pao: The HK Institute of Architects planned to recommend its former chairman Edward Ho to sit on the
consultative committee.
Bar Association honorary
secretary Daniel Fung: Although the BLCC constitution stipulates that members will join in their private capacity, Bar Association members sitting on the BLCC will definitely have a moral responsibility towards the association.
BLDC member Martin Lee: Fourteen sub-groups will be set up under the consultative committee to seek public views on the 14 major areas referred to in the Annexes to the
Joint Declaration.
Professor Steven Cheung of HKU's Economic Department: Basic Law drafting has proceeded in a wrong direction. The task should be given to international legal experts who could draft a set of laws independently and free of any influence from Peking.
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