The legal basis for public officers to take an oath or sign a declaration falls under Article 6 of the National Security Law. The National Security law is not specifically aimed at civil servants unless they violate the Lawz……

Since 2004, The Hong Kong SAR government has tried to enlarge its policy deliberation framework by conducting various forms of civic engagement, and the acknowledgement of civic engagement by the former Chief Executive Donald Tsang in 2007 has further advanced and refined it as one of the major consultation strategies.

This report identifies three research objectives. First, it focuses on Hong Kong people’s doubts about the constitutional arrangement of the HKSAR and tries to clarify several important constitutional and legal concepts……

高官問責制推行至今已達15年，作為特區政府中最高層次的政治架構，問責制的成效既影響政府的民望，更會影響各項主要政策的制訂和執行。

The practice of Hong Kong government officials to privately consult interest groups on public policy or projects has stirred vigorous debate in the wake of the Wang Chau controversy. People were outraged to learn earlier this year that the government scaled back housing development on a brownfield site after talks with rural leaders linked to it, and roundly criticised such “soft lobbying”, or informal consultation.

我們現在根據以往政府施政的成功經驗，先從改善和增強諮詢委員會及公眾參與的機制入手，希望更新現有體制的一些關鍵部份，能較快地令今後數年的公共政策的制訂及落實工作得到顯著的改善。