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8 Mr. HUI Yin-fat asked question 7.

The Secretary for Health and Welfare replied.

the

Mr. HUI Yin-fat, Dr. HỌ Kam-fai, Mrs. Pauline NG and Mr. Andrew WONG each asked one supplementary, and Secretary for Health and Welfare replied.

Written replies to Question 10 by Mr. Members' information.

Question 9 by Dr. Conrad LAM Hilton CHEONG-LEEN were tabled

and

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GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

MOTIONS

EXCHANGE FUND ORDINANCE

The Financial Secretary addressed the Council and moved the following motion:

Under section 3(5) of the Exchange Fund Ordinance, with the approval of the Secretary of State, that the aggregate amount of borrowings under section 3(3) of the said Ordinance shall not at any one time exceed fifty thousand million dollars.

Question put and agreed to.

PUBLIC FINANCE ORDINANCE

The Financial Secretary addressed the Council and moved the following motion:

That

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1. Authority is hereby given for a sum not exceeding

$16,266,785,000 to be charged on the general

the general revenue in advance of an Appropriation Ordinance for expenditure on the services of the Government in respect of the financial year commencing on 1 April 1987.

2. Subject to this resolution, the sum so charged may be expended against the heads of expenditure, and expenditure for each such head shall be arranged in accordance with the subheads, shown in the draft Estimates of Expenditure 1987-88.