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7.

The Green Paper discussed a number of issues

affecting the three

three tiers of the present system of

government. It put forward a range of options, and set

out the arguments for and against each of them. It did

not make recommendations. The object was to encourage

the widest possible public response.

The Survey Office

8.

A Survey Office was set up to collect public

opinion on the Green Paper. It operated outside the

ordinary machinery of government and without

interference from the Administration. Two independent

monitors were appointed to oversee its work. Its task

was to collect and collate, but not to assess, the

views expressed by the public. Its terms of reference

and those of the monitors are at Appendix A. The

Survey Office received submissions from the public from

27 May to 30 September 1987. It submitted its report

on the public response on 29 October 1987, and the

submitted their separate report on the

following day. Both reports were tabled in the

Legislative Council and published on 4 November.

monitors concluded in their report that the Survey

Office had carried out its duties properly, accurately

and impartially, and in line with its terms of

monitors

reference.

The

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