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(e)

Indications of Remedies

The Commonwealth Secretariat writes:-

"Public officials should indicate to persons affected by any administrative act what remedies, (including time limits) may be available.

5.14.

To conclude:

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There are three major questions to be answered first.

(a) To what extent do these principles reflect practice in Hong Kong

and the United Kingdom.

(b)

Can Hong Kong and the United Kingdom make their experience available jointly to others?

(c) What effect would the above principles have if implemented fully

within the Hong Kong and United Kingdom administrative systems?

5.15

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B.

PRINCIPLES OF ORGANISATION

The issue of civil service re-organisation is central today in the run up to 1997. In his speech to Legco in October 1990, the Governor, said, among other things: -

"The community, rightly, expects a good deal of its civil service.

So does the Government. A well-motivated and committed civil service essential to the success of Hong Kong in the 1990s and beyond.

"Civil servants' attitudes and aspirations have changed, as they

have in the community as a whole.

"For its part, the civil service has a responsibility to maintain

its impartiality and keep up its fine tradition of service to the public.

"We must look for new ways both to attract and retain staff."

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"We will have to look first to the quality of management. We have been experimenting with ways to give Departments the incentive to become more efficient, and to give policy secretaries increased responsibility within their policy areas. We have also identified scope for devolution of central authority to improve the quality of personnel management throughout the service."