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}} | transcription_name = | legislature = 5th Legislative Council | coa_pic = Legco.svg | session_room = Legislative Council Complex 2011 Chamber.JPG | house_type = Unicameral | houses = | leader1_type = President | leader1 = Jasper Tsang | party1 = DAB | election1 = 8 October 2008 | members = 70 | structure1 = Current Legislative Council of Hong Kong seat composition by party.svg | structure1_res = 250px | political_groups1 = DAB (13)}} BPA (7)}} FTU (6)}} Liberal (5)}} NPP (2)}} New Forum (1)}} FLU (1)}} Independents (8)}} Democratic (6)}} Civic (5)}} Labour (4)}} People Power (2)}} Prof Commons (2)}} LSD (1)}} Neo Democrats (1)}} NWSC (1)}} ADPL (1)}} Independents (3)}} | last_election1 = 9 September 2012 | last_by-election1 = 16 May 2010 | next_election1 = September 2016 | meeting_place = Legislative Council Complex, 1 Legislative Council Road, Central, Hong Kong | website = (legco.gov.hk ) }} The Legislative Council ((中国語:立法會)) or the LegCo is the unicameral legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The meetings of the Legislative Council is held at Legislative Council Complex since 2011. It has 70 members in which 35 returned from geographical constituencies plus 5 from a District Council functional constituency by direct elections; and 30 returned from other functional constituencies by indirect elections. Under the Articles 66 to 79 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong, the main functions of the Legislative Council are to enact, amend or repeal laws; examine and approve budgets, taxation and public expenditure; and raise questions on the work of the government. In addition, the Legislative Council is also given the power to endorse the appointment and removal of the judges of the Court of Final Appeal and the Chief Judge of the High Court, as well as the power to impeach the Chief Executive of Hong Kong.〔 Article 68 of the Basic Law states the ultimate aim is the election of all the members of the Legislative Council by universal suffrage. Together with the similar article for Chief Executive, Article 68 has helped make universal suffrage of the Legislative Council and Chief Executive the most dominant issue of Hong Kong politics. ==History== The Legislative Council of Hong Kong was set up in 1843 as a colonial legislature under British rule. Hong Kong's first constitution,〔 in the form of Queen Victoria's Letters Patent (see Hong Kong Letters Patent), issued on 27 June 1843 and titled the Charter of the Colony of Hong Kong, authorized the establishment of the Legislative Council to advise the Governor of Hong Kong's administration. The Council had four Official members including the Governor who was President and Member when it was first established. The Letters Patent of 1888, which replaced the 1843 Charter, added the significant words "and consent" after the words "with the advice".〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Legislative Council )〕 The Legislative Council was initially set up as the advisory body to the Governor, and for the most of the time, consisted half of official members, who were the government officials seating in the Council, and half of unofficial members who were appointed by the Governor. After the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed on 19 December 1984 (in which the United Kingdom agreed to transfer the sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China on 1 July 1997), the Hong Kong government decided to start the process of democratisation based on the consultative document, ''Green Paper: the Further Development of Representative Government in Hong Kong'' on 18 July 1984. The first ever elections to the Council were held in 1985, following by the first direct elections of the Legislative Council were held in 1991. The Legislative Council became a fully elected legislature for the first time in 1995. The People's Republic of China government did not agree with reforms to the Legislative Council enacted in 1994. Therefore, it withdrew the previous so-called "through-train" policy that would have meant that members elected to the colonial Legislative Council would automatically become members of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ("HKSAR") legislature. Instead, the Chinese government resolved to set up an alternative legislative council in preparation for the handover of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from Britain to China. This body, the Provisional Legislative Council, was established by the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) under the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China in 1996. The Provisional Legislative Council, in operation from January 1997 to June 1998, initially held its meetings in Shenzhen. The Legislative Council of the HKSAR was established in 1998 under The Basic Law of the HKSAR. The first meeting of the Council was held in July of the same year in Hong Kong. Since The Basic Law came into effect, four Legislative Council elections have been held, with the most recent election being held on 9 September 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Legislative Council of Hong Kong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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