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concerned with

resolving the disputes

individuals who break a gentleman's

between

agreement.

Hence we decided it is not necessary to legislate

on these side issues for which

for which there is already

an answer under section 16(3).

3.

We then consider the penalty

Mr. Desmond LEE, the views expressed in

public by the spokesman of the Hong Kong

Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood

an Urban Councillor

1 香港民主民生協會 and

(

have urged that the candidate who is convicted of

the proposed offence should only be disqualified

from standing for that relevant election, and the

disqualification

proposed in the Bill is too

long. The ad hoc group looked into this matter

and found that in the Corrupt and

and legal

Practices Ordinance there are sections under, for

example, section 16(1) (which forbids false

statements concerning a candidate) section 12(1)

(which involves expenses incurred by unauthorized

persons) and section 19 (1) (which involves

failure to print the name, address of printers on

bills and so on) the penalties are already there

and are the same. The proposed section 17(1) and