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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 11 May 1988

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EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988

Clauses 1 to 5 were agreed to.

Council then resumed.

Third Reading of Bills

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL reported that the

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (ELECTROAL PROVISIONS) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988

APPROPRIATION BILL 1988 and the

EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988

had passed through Committee without amendment. He moved the Third Reading of the Bills.

Question on the Bills proposed, put and agreed to.

Bills read the Third time and passed.

Member's Motion

Report on youth policy

MRS. TAM moved the following motion: That this Council takes note of the Report on Youth Policy.

She said (in Cantonese): Sir, I move the motion standing in my name on the Order Paper. In recent years, there has been a sudden increase in public concern and regard for youth development. That is, to some extent, the result of circumstances. The Sino-British Joint Declaration has established a historic watershed in 1997 for Hong Kong, the community needs to be fully prepared for the new situation. In this process, we have awakened to the fact that, in order to maintain Hong Kong's stability and prosperity and to meet the great challenges of the time, it is essential to have a new generation of citizens who have had healthy development and have a sense of belonging and are committed to the future of the community. It is against this background that youth development has seen a resurgence of public recognition and attention.

This approach, based on objective circumstantial need, regards youth development as purely a tool, or a means, towards social or political goals; but once the results do not seem to meet the original goals, or if the goals seem to be