TNAG-1451-FCO40-1955-Hong-Kong-Regional-Council-Ordinance-and-elections-1986 — Page 162

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The Bill will also make the Regional Council the

Authority, in place of the Director of Regional Services, for

a wide range of powers and functions under the Ordinance and

its subsidiary legislation including the provision of services,

the management of facilities, the issuance of licences, etc.

As the Council will in future perform its functions through

the Regional Services Department which will be its executive arm,

significant changes in the existing day-to-day working arrangements

will not be necessary.

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5.

The Bill provides the necessary transitional

arrangements to allow officers of the Regional Services

Department to continue to perform their present functions until

30 April 1986 by which date the Regional Council will be able to

fully assume its responsibility for them. The Bill will also provide that

certain contracts made under the present Ordinance and entered into

before 1 April 1986 by the Director of Regional Services on behalf

of the Government shall, if they are still in force on that date,

be deemed to have been entered into on behalf of the Regional

Council.

6.

When I moved the Second Reading of the Urban

Council (Amendment) Bill, I explained to Members the

necessity to redefine the jurisdictional areas of the two

Councils.

Similar amendments to this Crdinance have also been

found necessary.

It is therefore proposed that the jurisdictions

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