2021-04-08 08:05:56 GMT2021-04-08 16:05:56(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HONG KONG, April 8 (Xinhua) Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Thursday said that subject to endorsement of the Executive Council, the amendment bill to improve the HKSAR s electoral system will be tabled to the Legislative Council (LegCo) next Wednesday.
Lam said at a LegCo meeting that the bill covers five main ordinances, namely the Chief Executive Election Ordinance, the Legislative Council Ordinance, the Electoral Affairs Commission Ordinance, the District Councils Ordinance, the Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Conduct) Ordinance, and relevant subsidiary legislation.
The bill will also revise the date of the LegCo general election, Lam said, adding that the HKSAR government will strive to cooperate with the LegCo s Bills Committees with the deliberation as time is tight.
HKSAR chief executive to table local electoral legislation amendment bill to LegCo next week
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Hong Kong publishes amendments requiring district councilors to take oaths
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2021-02-26 15:35:07 GMT2021-02-26 23:35:07(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HONG KONG, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government on Friday published an amendment bill in the Gazette that requires District Council (DC) members to take oaths when taking office.
DC members should comply with the same oath-taking requirements of swearing to uphold the HKSAR Basic Law and bear allegiance to the HKSAR as other public officers, according to the Public Offices (Candidacy and Taking Up Offices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2021.
Previously, the HKSAR chief executive, principal officials of the government, members of the Executive Council and of the Legislative Council, judges of the courts at all levels and other members of the judiciary are required to take oaths, which are written into Article 104 of the Basic Law.
Stashed inside pickup trucks and guarded by armed militias and jihadists, every year billions of illicit cigarettes wind their way through the lawless deserts of northern Mali bound for the Sahel and North Africa.
The profits from their long journey fuel north Mali’s many armed conflicts, lining the pockets of offshoots of al-Qaida and the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, as well as local militias, and corrupt state and military officials. This violence is now spilling out across West Africa, displacing more than two million people in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger.
Cigarettes made by one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, British American Tobacco (BAT) and distributed with the help of another major, Imperial Brands, through a company partially owned by the Malian state, dominate this dirty and dangerous trade.