TNAG-1440-FCO40-1924-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 19

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21.

In

on

The Legislative Council has a very busy agenda. its current session, it will pass 6 or 8 major Bills matters of great public interest, including the Budget, and about 70 minor Bills, mostly amendments designed to keep

Hong

Kong's

legislation

business

are

up to

examined

date.

in

All aspects

Committees of

Govenment

But

of

the

the

Legislative Council and in the UMELCO panels and ad hoc groups. The members of the newly constituted Legislative Council have tackled this work in a serious and responsible manner. Responsibility for the formulation and execution

remains of policy

firmly with the Executive. Legislative Council's task is to ensure that these policies are adequately explained and justified in a public forum, that that the community as whole may be satisfied

a there is a clear justification for laws and policies which affect their daily lives.

So

Boards and Committees

22. The wide network of Boards and Committees has been developed over many years as part of the system of public consultation by which Government seeks to obtain, through consultaltion with interested groups, the best advice on

decisions. They can

which to base

be

non-statutory, advisory or executive in form.

statutory

or

23.

Principal bodies include the

Transport

Advisory

Committee:

Advisory

the

Committee,

Housing

Authority: the Social

the Medical

Development

Welfare

Advisory

and the Education

Commission.

Their

membership

is

and

Committee, the University

the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee

of

carefully selected to reflect specialist knowledge community activities. In recent years, the proportion

them has Unofficial members of LegCo appointed to steadily increased, and wherever possible the Chairman is

been

an Unofficial.

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