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

Intro -- 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 Autonomy -- Political 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 Bill -- Summaries -- 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 2010 -- Summaries -- 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 PAC -- Composition 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 -- Propriety of Introducing a No Confidence Motion -- Motion for Adjournment of The Council -- Conclusion -- 6: Questions -- Notice and Number of Questions -- Content of Questions -- Questions to the Government -- Chief Executive's Question-and-Answer Session -- Conclusion -- 7: Investigation Power: Legislative Council (Powers And Privileges) Ordinance -- Drafting History of the 1985 Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges) Ordinance -- How Legco Uses its Investigation Power Under the PPO -- Significance Of Investigation Power Under The PPO -- Challenges To The PPO: Cheng Kar Shun Case -- Conclusion -- 8: Conclusion -- Level of Autonomy.

External Environment -- Internal Characteristics -- Autonomy of Legco -- Actual Impact of Legco -- Interaction Pattern -- Trends in Legco's Actual Impact -- Strategy Shift and New Rule After 2012 -- Beijing's New Strategy and Its Impact -- Rule of Leung Chun Ying -- Bibliography -- Articles and Books -- Selected Committee Minutes, Reports and Factsheets of Legco and Government Documents -- Internet Sources -- Index.

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.

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