AJ 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dispute Settlement Body, Geographical Constituency

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Administration of Justice (AJ)
• Course: AJ 014
• Professor: Wheeler

Document Summary

Executive, legislative and judicial branches -> different from pre-handover (powers centralised to the ce) If the legislature passes a bill, the ce signs the bill -> if not sign, send the bill back to the legislature -> if 2/3 legco still passes the bill, ce can resign or dissolve the. Legco (power can only be used once) -> after re-election of legco, legco still passes the bill and then ce has to resign. (ce always sign government bill -> but may refuse to sign the private member bill) Not provided by bl -> ce may refuse) 1/4 legco can raise investigation to the ce -> need majority in both functional and geographical constituencies -> investigatory committee headed by chief. Justice -> consent of the npc -> removal of current ce. => check and balance between each branches (no such arrangement before handover) Legco cannot propose new policies and budgets but only monitor them.