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Hong Kong's Legislature under China's Sovereignty : 1998-2013.

In Hong Kong's Legislature Under China's Sovereignty: 1998-2013 Dr Gu Yu thoroughly analyses how Hong Kong's legislature has impacted the law-making process as well as the financial control and supervision of the executive branch of the government. The political cleavage in Hong Kong...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gu, Yu
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : BRILL, 2015.
©2015
Colección:Chinese and comparative law series.
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  • Hong Kong's Legislature under China's Sovereignty; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Tables and Figures; List of Cases; List of Rulings of Presidents of the Legislative Council; List of Abbreviations; 1: Assessing The Legislative Council: Autonomy and Performance; Introduction; Functions of Legislatures: Do Legislatures Exist to Make Law?; Autonomy of Legislatures; Conclusion; 2: External Environment and Internal Characteristics of Legco's Autonomy; Autonomy of the Pre-1997 Legco; Separation from the Executive; Administrative and Financial Autonomy.
  • Committee AutonomyPolitical Parties of Legco in the Colonial Period; Legco in 1997; Autonomy of Post-1998 Legco; External Environment; Internal Characteristics: Rules, Committee Autonomy, Administrative Autonomy and Financial Autonomy; Conclusion; 3: Scrutiny of Legislation; Private Member's Bill Under Article 74 of Basic Law; Decline of Private member's Bills; President's Rulings on Private member's Bills; Summaries; Scrutiny of Bills: Bills Committees; Bills Scrutinised by Bills Committees; Legislators' Participation in BCS; Deliberation in BCS.
  • Case Study: Bills Committee on the Interception of Communications and Surveillance BillSummaries; Scrutiny of Bills: Members' Committee Stage Amendments to Government Bills; Restrictions on the Introduction of Members' CSAS; Introduction of Members' CSAS; Determinants of Members' CSAS; Filibuster: An Unusual Procedural Weapon; Summaries; Study of Several Bills: Government's Defeats; National Security (Legislative Provisions) Bill; Government's Defeat in Race Discrimination Bill; Scrutiny of Subsidiary Legislation; Results of Subsidiary Legislation; Negative Vetting or Positive Vetting.
  • Case Study: Country Parks (Designation) (Consolidation) (Amendment) Order 2010Summaries; Conclusion; 4: Scrutiny of Public Finance; Institutional Framework for Financial Scrutiny by Legco; Legco's Power to Amend and Approve Public Expenditure; Restrictions of 'Public Expenditure' and 'Charging Effect'; Ex ante Scrutiny: Control over Budget and Public Expenditure; Examination of Budget Proposals; Examination of Other Financial Proposals; Collapsed Levies; Means of Scrutinising Budget and Taxation Issues; Ex post Scrutiny: The Public Accounts Committee; Objectives of the PAC.
  • Relation between Audit Commission and PACComposition of the PAC; PAC Scrutiny of Public Expenditure; Impact of the PAC; Expenditure Without Legco Approval; Conclusion; 5: Motions Without Legislative Effect; Restrictions on Moving a Motion or Amendment to a Motion; Determinants of Result of Members' Motions; Introduction of Motions; Separate Voting Mechanism; Political Orientation and the Nature of the Issues; Government's Response to Successful Motions; No Confidence Motions; No Confidence Motions in Early Days of the hksar; Recent Development of no Confidence Motions.