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Article: Judicial Service Commission Bill Tabled at Provisional Legislature
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 7, 1997
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The Judicial Service Commission (Amendment) Bill 1997 was tabled
here today at the Provisional Legislative Council (PLC) for
scrutiny.
Moved by the Chief Executive's Office of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region (HKSAR), the bill passed the first and second
readings at the 10th plenary meeting of the PLC here in Shenzhen,
the
southern China city bordering Hong Kong.
Elsie Leung Oi-sie, Secretary of Justice of the HKSAR explained
to
legislators that the main purpose of the bill was to ensure the
smooth appointment of the first group of judges of the HKSAR.
At the HKSAR government inauguration and swearing-in ceremony on
July 1, 1997, permanent Judges of the Court of Final Appeal and ...