Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics

Wai-man Lam and Percy Luen-tim Lui

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9789888139477

Published to Hong Kong Scholarship Online: January 2013

DOI: 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139477.001.0001

Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM HONG KONG SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.hongkong.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright Hong Kong University Press, 2021. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in HKSO for personal use.date: 08 March 2021

The Legislature

The Legislature

Chapter:
(p.45) Chapter 3 The Legislature
Source:
Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics
Author(s):

Percy Luen-tim Lui

Publisher:
Hong Kong University Press
DOI:10.5790/hongkong/9789888139477.003.0003

This chapter examines changes to the membership composition of the HKSAR Legislative Council (LegCo) and reviews how these changes affect the performance of the LegCo. It then studies the functions and powers of the LegCo, such as lawmaking and overseeing the government's performance. Next, the chapter investigates the performance of the Third HKSAR LegCo (2004–08) and concludes that its performance was less impressive than that of the 1995–97 LegCo. The chapter details why the HKSAR LegCo is unable to perform as effectively as the pre-handover LegCo. It then suggests methods of strengthening the functioning of the HKSAR LegCo in the future, such as amending Article 74 of the Basic Law and reforming the LegCo‧s committee and panel systems.

Keywords:   Hong Kong, Government, Politics, Special Administrative Region, Basic Law, Legislative Council

Hong Kong Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .