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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL―26 October 1983 81 HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL―26 October 1983 81 OFFICIAL REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS Wednesday, 26 October 1983 The Council met at half past two o’clock PRESENT HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (PRESIDENT) SIR EDWARD YOUDE, G.C.M.G., M.B.E. THE HONOURABLE THE CHIEF SECRETARY SIR CHARLES PHILIP HADDON-CAVE, K.B.E., C.M.G., J.P. THE HONOURABLE THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY SIR JOHN HENRY BREMRIDGE, K.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL MR. MICHAEL DAVID THOMAS, Q.C. THE HONOURABLE ROGERIO HYNDMAN LOBO, C.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE DENIS CAMPBELL BRAY, C.M.G., C.V.O., J.P. SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS THE HONOURABLE DAVID AKERS-JONES, C.M.G., J.P. SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION THE HONOURABLE LO TAK-SHING, C.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE FRANCIS YUAN-HAO TIEN, O.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE ALEX WU SHU-CHIH, C.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE CHEN SHOU-LUM, O.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE LYDIA DUNN, C.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE ALAN JAMES SCOTT, C.B.E., J.P. SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT THE HONOURABLE PETER C. WONG, O.B.E., J.P. DR. THE HONOURABLE THONG KAH-LEONG, C.B.E., J.P. DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES THE HONOURABLE ERIC PETER HO, C.B.E., J.P. SECRETARY FOR TRADE AND INDUSTRY THE HONOURABLE CHARLES YEUNG SIU-CHO, O.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE JOHN MARTIN ROWLANDS, C.B.E., J.P. SECRETARY FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE DR. THE HONOURABLE HO KAM-FAI, O.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE ALLEN LEE PENG-FEI, O.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE ANDREW SO KWOK-WING, J.P. THE HONOURABLE HU FA-KUANG, J.P. THE HONOURABLE WONG PO-YAN, O.B.E., J.P. 82 HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL―26 October 1983 THE HONOURABLE DONALD LIAO POON-HUAI, C.B.E., J.P. SECRETARY FOR HOUSING THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM CHARLES LANGDON BROWN, O.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE CHAN KAM-CHUEN, J.P. THE HONOURABLE COLVYN HUGH HAYE, C.B.E., J.P. DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION THE HONOURABLE STEPHEN CHEONG KAM-CHUEN, J.P. THE HONOURABLE MRS. SELINA CHOW LIANG SHUK-YEE, J.P. THE HONOURABLE MARIA TAM WAI-CHU, J.P. DR. THE HONOURABLE HENRIETTA IP MAN-HING THE HONOURABLE PIERS JACOBS, O.B.E., J.P. SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES THE HONOURABLE DAVID GREGORY JEAFFRESON, C.B.E., J.P. SECRETARY FOR SECURITY THE HONOURABLE HENRY CHING, C.B.E., J.P. SECRETARY FOR HEALTH AND WELFARE THE HONOURABLE CHAN NAI-KEONG, J.P. SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS THE HONOURABLE RONALD GEORGE BLACKER BRIDGE, J.P. COMMISSIONER FOR LABOUR THE HONOURABLE CHAN YING-LUN THE HONOURABLE MRS. RITA FAN HSU LAI-TAI THE HONOURABLE MRS. PAULINE NG CHOW MAY-LIN THE HONOURABLE PETER POON WING-CHEUNG, M.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE JAMES NEIL HENDERSON, O.B.E., J.P. SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER ABSENT DR. THE HONOURABLE HARRY FANG SIN-YANG, C.B.E., J.P. THE REVD. THE HONOURABLE PATRICK TERENCE MCGOVERN, O.B.E., S.J., J.P. THE HONOURABLE WONG LAM, O.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE GERALD PAUL NAZARETH, O.B.E., Q.C. J.P. LAW DRAFTSMAN THE HONOURABLE JOHN JOSEPH SWAINE, O.B.E., Q.C., J.P. THE HONOURABLE CHEUNG YAN-LUNG, M.B.E., J.P. THE HONOURABLE YEUNG PO-KWAN, C.P.M. IN ATTENDANCE THE CLERK TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MRS. JENNIE CHOK PANG YUEN-YEE HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL―26 October 1983 83 Papers The following papers were laid pursuant to Standing Order 14(2):― Subject L.N. No. Subsidiary Legislation: Dutiable Commodities Ordinance Dutiable Commodities (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1983........................... 319 Dutiable Commodities Ordinance Dutiable Commodities (Liquor) (Amendment) Regulations 1983......................... 320 Hong Kong Airport (Control of Obstructions) Ordinance Hong Kong Airport (Control of Obstructions) (Consolidation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1983................................................................................................ 321 Prisons Ordinance Prisons (Chi Ma Wan Prison) Order 1983............................................................. 326 Immigration Ordinance Immigration (Places of Detention) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1983.................. 327 Immigration Ordinance Immigration (Vietnamese Refugee Centres) (Closed Centres) (Designation) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1983 ......................................................................... 328 Immigration Ordinance Immigration (Vietnamese Refugee Centres) (Closed Centre) (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 1983 ........................................................................................................ 329 District Court Ordinance District Court Civil Procedure (Forms) (Amendment) Rules 1983 ....................... 330 District Court Ordinance District Court Civil Procedure (General) (Amendment) Rules 1983..................... 331 Public Revenue Protection Ordinance Public Revenue Protection (Inland Revenue) Order 1983 ..................................... 332 Hong Kong Civil Aviation (Investigation of Accidents) Regulations 1983 ................... 333 Registration of Persons Ordinance Registration of Persons (Application for New Identity Cards) (No. 6) Order 1983 ...................................................................................................................... 334 84 HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL―26 October 1983 Subject L.N. No. Registration of Persons Ordinance Registration of Persons (Invalidation of Identity Cards) Order 1983 .................... 335 Hong Kong Tourist Association Ordinance Hong Kong Tourist Association Ordinance (Amendment of Schedule) Order 1983 ...................................................................................................................... 336 Juvenile Offenders Ordinance Places of Detention (Juvenile Offenders) Appointment Order 1983 ..................... 337 Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance Public Health and Urban Services (Designation of Libraries) (No. 4) Order 1983 338 Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance Public Health and Urban Services (Designation of Libraries) (No. 5) Order 1983 339 Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance (Amendment of Tenth Schedule) (No. 2) Order 1983................................................................................................ 340 Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance Declaration of Markets in the Urban Areas (Amendment) Declaration 1983........ 341 Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance Declaration of Market in Urban Area (No. 2)........................................................ 342 Legal Practitioners Ordinance Solicitors (General) Costs (Amendment) Rules 1983............................................ 343 Legal Practitioners Ordinance Practising Certificate (Solicitors) (Amendment) Rules 1983 ................................ 344 Sessional Papers 1983-84: No. 12―Fish Marketing Organization―Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31 March 1983. No. 13―Vegetable Marketing Organization―Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31 March 1983. No. 14―Marine Fish Scholarship Fund Report for the period 1 April 1982 to 31 March 1983. No. 15―Agricultural Products Scholarship Fund Report for the period 1 April 1982 to 31 March 1983. HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL―26 October 1983 85 Government business Motion MOTION OF THANKS THE CHIEF SECRETARY moved the following motion:―That this Council thanks the Governor for his address. MR. LOBO:―Your Excellency, I am sure we all share some sense of frustration on this occasion. We must all wish that by what we say here, we could be seen making some dramatic contribution to the deliberations about our future. Although we cannot do that, without prejudice to the negotiations, I do not subscribe to the notion that what is left for us to discuss is unimportant or irrelevant. I think that you yourself have given us the lead in your address by reminding us of the tasks we have already set our hands to and which will, by themselves, demand all our resolution and all our resources to complete. It is not irrelevant and it is not unrealistic to recognize that if there is little that can be said at this time about the negotiations on our future there is much that can be usefully said and done about the business of Government into the next century. We must not fall into the trap of believing that because we cannot talk about the negotiations there is nothing important to talk about. There really is a trap there because the worst thing we could do at this time is to lose our resolution and our purpose as an administration. After all, an important question must be the performance of this administration; its relevance to the stability and prosperity which everyone is pledged to preserve; and the extent to which it identifies and is identified with the hopes and ambitions of our people. We will make no small contribution to that future if we address ourselves seriously and urgently to the performance of the administration in these terms. I am sure that my colleagues will not be distracted from their customary critical appraisal of Government policies and programmes over the wide range covered by your address. In the fields of housing, education, and labour; to take only three examples, there can surely be no question of sitting back and saying that decisions and programmes should wait in a kind of limbo. On the contrary, I would say that the quality of administration is likely to come under more, rather than less, critical appraisal in the immediate future and judgement will be made upon performance, and not promises. 86 HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL―26 October 1983 We shall have to deliver the homes that are promised in our programmes; we shall have to produce demonstrable improvements in an educational system which has been tinkered with for
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