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129.

two

ZURET

Separating the membership

of the

Councils implies that Legco must be left

free' to Fun its Own affairs and, in the

process, to develop further its relationship

with the Government. That is the position

now laid down in the Royal Instructions, and

will be the position, set out in Article 75

of the Basic Law, in the future. As an

important move in that direction, I wish to

hand over the responsibilities of presiding

.over this Council to a President elected by

you from among your own Members.

130.

This will mean that, in future, I

will be answerable

erable as the head of the

Executive to this Council rather than being

restricted to

to the role of President. To be

answerable to this Council in practice, I

if you agree, to make myself

propose,

available to answer Members' questions and

to

discuss

government policies and

proposals, on at least one Thursday every

month that you are in session, though in

practice I imagine you will be seeing a good

deal more of me than that. I should also

like to make myself. available to this

Council to report on my major trips abroad

and on other important developments. With

your agreement, I suggest that the first of

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