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for 1991 compare with existing District Board

constituencies?

-

Chief Executive: how will the first Chief Executive be

elected?

What are our objectives for this?

What is HMG's view about the Election Committee for

the election of the subsequent Chief Executives?

CE resp lo

Changes to the system proposed in 2007: the arrangements for the election of the Chief Executive will be submitted to the NPC for approval (ie not automatic) whereas arrangements for the election of the legislature will be submitted "for the record". Why the difference and

what does HMG think about the difference?

· Relations between ExCo and LegCo: checks and balances/

accountability. Are the arrangements provided under

Articles 50 and 52 adequate?

How to integrate the Executive and the legislature, by overlapping members? Or should membership be totally separate? How do we achieve a better relationship between

EXCO and LegCo?

- What other changes are planned between now and 1997? (Eg in

in the functioning of the legislature (institutional changes etc, changes of practice) and in the role of the Governor.)

(c) Basic Law/Joint Declaration:

- Are the safeguards in the Basic Law adequate?

· Article 18.

eg

NPC

Suv.

- What is HMG's view on the exclusion of people with the *

right of abode elsewhere from senior posts?

(a) Bill of Rights:

X

Timetable.

- Is Article 39 of the Basic Law adequate protection of

human rights in Hong Kong.

Progress report on the Hong Kong Government's review of existing laws to ascertain consistency with the ICCPR.

CC7A5X/2