The LegCo Reporter
2007-2008
Issue No. 6 (22 November 2007)



At its meeting on 21 November 2007, the Legislative Council passed the following bill:

    Patents (Amendment) Bill 2007, with amendments proposed by the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development at Committee Stage.

At the same meeting, the Council passed the following two resolutions:

(1)Resolution moved by Hon SIN Chung-kai relating to the extension of the period for amending the Securities and Futures (Contracts Limits and Reportable Positions) (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2007.

(2)Resolution moved by Hon SIN Chung-kai relating to the extension of the period for amending the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Regulation (Commencement) Notice.


The following two motions not intended to have legislative effect were also passed by the Council:

(1)Motion on "Preventing cancer", moved by Hon LI Kwok-ying as amended by Dr Hon KWOK Ka-ki , Hon CHEUNG Hok-ming , Hon Andrew CHENG Kar-foo and Hon CHOY So-yuk.

(2)Motion on "Consolidating the quality of post-secondary education", moved by Dr Hon YEUNG Sum as amended by Hon TAM Yiu-chung.