Legislative Council Annual Report 2016-2017
Chapter 3 Committees • • The Committee also considered 17 items of subsidiary legislation not required to be tabled in Council, among which 11 items were made under the United Nations Sanctions Ordinance (Cap. 537). The Committee had referred these 11 items of subsidiary legislation to the Subcommittee to Examine the Implementation in Hong Kong of Resolutions of the United Nations Security Council in relation to Sanctions set up under the Committee for consideration; • • The Committee held three special meetings to discuss with the Chief Secretary for Administration, the Secretary for Justice and senior government officials issues of wide public concern, including the interpretation of Article 104 of the Basic Law by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress; the development of the Hong Kong Palace Museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District; and the customs, immigration and quarantine arrangements of the Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link; and • • The Committee discussed and supported a Member's proposal for asking an urgent oral question on the collapse of the balcony of a tenement building in Hung Hom. A meeting of the House Committee. Mr Rimsky YUEN Kwok-keung, Secretary for Justice, answers Members' questions on customs, immigration andquarantine arrangements of theHongKong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link at a special House Committee meeting. 54 Legislative Council Annual Report 2016-2017
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