6th Legislative Council of Hong Kong

6th Legislative Council of Hong Kong
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Overview
Legislative body	Legislative Council
Jurisdiction	Hong Kong
Meeting place	Legislative Council Complex
Term	1 October 2016 – 30 September 2020
Website	legco.gov.hk/
Members	70 members
President	Andrew Leung (BPA)
Party control	Pro-Beijing camp

The Sixth Legislative Council of Hong Kong is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. The term of the session is from 1 October 2016 to 30 September 2020. The session consists of the new total of 70 seats in LegCo, with 35 members elected in geographical constituencies through geographical constituency direct elections, and 35 members in functional constituencies. The membership is based on the 2016 Legislative Council election.

The pro-Beijing camp remained the majority of the legislature with the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong as the largest party. The anti-establishment camp, including the traditional pan-democrats and newly emerging localists secured the majority in the geographical constituencies and the one-third crucial minority which allowed them veto any government's proposal on constitutional reform. Notable new members include the post-Occupy activists, Demosisto's Nathan Law, 23, being the youngest member to be elected and Youngspiration's Yau Wai-ching, 25, being the youngest woman to be elected. Other new members include Eddie Chu, Lau Siu-lai, Baggio Leung, Eunice Yung and Junius Ho.

An unprecedented oath-taking controversy broke out at the inauguration of the council. The Leung Chun-ying authorities asked the court to disqualify Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching after they inserted their own words into the oaths of office and mispronounced "China". The National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) controversially interpreted Article 104 of Hong Kong Basic Law, effectively adding retrospective regulations of the format of oath-taking of public offices in Hong Kong. After two Younspiration members were disqualified by the court, Leung's authorities pressed charges against Leung Kwok-hung, Nathan Law, Lau Siu-lai and Yiu Chung-yim, and the four pro-democracy members were disqualified as a result. This brought a historical low of pan-democrats' seats of the council, losing control of the geographical constituencies.

On 17 December 2019, legislators Au Nok-hin and Gary Fan lost their seats after the Court of Final Appeal refused to hear their appeals on two separate rulings that rendered them not duly elected as the disqualified legislators were not given an opportunity to respond. It is not yet clear whether a by-election would be held, given that there are only two months until the next election.[1]

Major events

2016–17

The pro-Beijing legislators staged a walkout on 19 October to force adjournment in order to block the Youngspiration legislators to retake the oaths.

12 October 2016: In the first meeting of the session, all members took their oaths while three members, Youngspiration's Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching and pan-democrat Edward Yiu who inserted their own words into the official script had their oaths rejected by the Legislative Council Secretariat, but 11 others - four localist and seven pan-democratic - added their own wording either before or after taking the oath and face no repercussions. Leung and Yau were criticised for pronouncing China as "Chee-na", the derogatory pronunciation used during the Second Sino-Japanese War and mispronouncing "People’s Republic of China" as "people’s re-fucking of Chee-na". After the oaths, the second most senior member Leung Yiu-chung of the Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre chaired the election of the President of the Legislative Council. To protest the Legislative Council secretariat's decision to disallow the three members to enter the chamber, Leung gave up the role amid calls from his colleagues to postpone the election due to the dispute over the British nationality of the pro-Beijing nominee Andrew Leung of the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA). Instead, Abraham Shek of the BPA who replaced Leung Yiu-chung pushed the election ahead. The pan-democrats and localists tore up their ballot papers and exited the meeting room before the vote. As a result, Andrew Leung received 38 votes against pro-democrat nominee James To's zero with three blank ballots.[2]
19 October 2016: In the second meeting of the session when five members retook their oaths, the pro-Beijing camp staged a walkout to force the meeting to be adjourned for the first time in the session to protest the two Youngspiration legislators refusal to apologise for their "insulting" oaths last week before Yau and Leung, as well as Lau Siu-lai were to retake their oaths.[3]
26 October 2016: In the third general meeting, Legislative Council President Andrew Leung adjourned the meeting after the three members, two Youngspiration legislators he disallowed from joining the meeting as he decided to delay their oath-retaking but were escorted by the pan-democracy legislators into the chamber, and Civic Passion's Cheng Chung-tai who shouted at Leung for his decision, refused to leave the chamber.

2018–19

Members of two rival camps pushed and shoved each other in the Bills Committee meeting on 11 May 2019.

6 May 2019: After a House Committee meeting with a pro-Beijing majority, voted to issue a set of guidelines to replace the most senior member James To of the Democratic Party with the third senior member Abraham Shek of the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong to preside the Bills Committee of the controversial Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019 after To was accused of filibustering. To claimed that the move was illegitimate, adding that the secretariat had abused its power in issuing the circular without having any formal discussion. The pro-democracy legislators insisted to go ahead with the 6 May meeting as planned, which was eventually rescheduled by Shek with only 20 members present.[4]
11 May 2019: A clash broke out as the pro-democracy and pro-Beijing camps called separate meetings of the Bills Committee of the controversial Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019 at the same room. A number of legislators fell to the ground as they pushed and shoved each other along the packed hallway. Gary Fan fell to the ground after standing on a table, and appearing to have fainted before he was sent to hospital.[5]

Major legislation

Enacted

14 June 2018: Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (Co-location) Bill

Proposed

National Anthem Bill
Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019

Composition

As of 1 June 2020:

	Affiliation	Election	Current
	Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong	12	13
	Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong	7	8
	Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions	5	4
	Liberal Party	4	4
	New People's Party	3	2
	Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions	1	1
	New Century Forum	1	1
	Roundtable	0	1
	Independent	7	8
Total for pro-Beijing camp		40	42
	Democratic Party	7	7
	Civic Party	6	5
	Professional Commons	2	2
	People Power	1	1
	League of Social Democrats	1	0
	Labour Party	1	1
	Demosistō	1	0
	Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre	1	1
	Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union	1	1
	HK First	0	1
	Neo Democrats	0	0*
	Independent	5	3
Total for pro-democracy camp		26	22
	Civic Passion	1	1
	Youngspiration	2	0
Total for localist groups		3	1
Non-aligned independent		1	1
Vacant		0	4
Total		70	66

* The Neo Democrats won one seat in the New Territories East by-election, but lost it after a court declared Gary Fan not duly elected.

Graphical representation of the Legislative Council

Legislative Council membership since 17 December 2019

Legislative Council division by caucus since 17 December 2019

Current Legislative Council of Hong Kong seat composition by party.

Localists (1)

Civic Passion (1)

Non-aligned others (1)

Independent (1)

Vacant (3)

Vacant (3)

Pro-democracy (22)

HK First (1)

People Power (1)

NSWC (1)

Labour (1)

Civic (5)

Democratic (7)

PC (2)

PTU (1)

Independent (3)

Pro-Beijing (43)

Liberal (4)

Roundtable (1)

BPA (8)

New Forum (1)

NPP (2)

DAB (13)

FTU (5)

FLU (1)

Independent (8)

Leadership

Office	Party	Officer		Constituency	Since
President	BPA		Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen	Industrial (First)	12 October 2016
Secretary General	N/A		Kenneth Chen Wei-on	N/A	29 September 2012

List of members

The following table is a list of LegCo members elected on 4 September 2016 in the order of precedence.

Members who did not serve throughout the term are italicised. New members elected since the general election are noted at the bottom of the page.

Key to changes since legislative election:

^a = change in party allegiance

^b = by-election

GC/ FC	Constituency	Elected Members	Elected Party	Occupation	Alma Mater	First Assumed Office	Born In
FC	Industrial (First)	Andrew Leung	BPA	Merchant	Leeds University	2004	1951
FC	District Council (Second)	James To	Democratic	Solicitor	University of Hong Kong	1991	1963
FC	District Council (Second)	Leung Yiu-chung	NWSC	Legislative Councillor	University of Essex	1995	1953
FC	Real Estate and Construction	Abraham Shek	BPA	Company Director	University of Sydney	2000	1945
FC	Catering	Tommy Cheung	Liberal	Merchant/ Legislative Councillor	Pepperdine University	2000	1949
FC	Health Services	Joseph Lee	Independent	Dean and Professor	La Trobe University University of Edinburgh Lingnan University	2004	1959
FC	Commercial (First)	Jeffrey Lam	BPA	Merchant	Tufts University	2004	1952
FC	Import and Export	Wong Ting-kwong	DAB	Merchant	N/A	2004	1949
FC	District Council (Second)	Starry Lee	DAB	Accountant/ Legislative Councillor	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology University of Manchester	2008	1974
GC	New Territories East	Chan Hak-kan	DAB/NTAS	Legislative Councillor	Chinese University of Hong Kong	2008	1976
FC	Insurance	Chan Kin-por	Independent	Legislative Councillor	Ng Wah College	2008	1954
GC	Kowloon West	Priscilla Leung	BPA/KWND	Associate Professor/ Barrister-at-law	Chinese University of Hong Kong University of Hong Kong Renmin University	2008	1961
GC	Kowloon East	Wong Kwok-kin	FTU	Legislative Councillor	N/A	2008	1952
GC	Hong Kong Island	Regina Ip	NPP	Chair of Savantas Policy Institute	University of Hong Kong University of Glasgow Stanford University	2008	1950
GC	Kowloon East	Paul Tse	Independent	Solicitor	University of New South Wales City University of Hong Kong	2008	1959
GC	New Territories East^b	Leung Kwok-hung[lower-alpha 1]	LSD/AFA	Legislative Councillor	N/A	2004	1956
GC	Kowloon West	Claudia Mo	Civic^a	N/A	Carleton University	2012	1957
GC	New Territories West	Michael Tien	NPP^a	Legislative Councillor/ Entrepreneur	Cornell University Harvard Business School	2012	1950
FC	Agriculture and Fisheries	Steven Ho	DAB	Legislative Councillor	University of Birmingham	2012	1979
FC	Transport	Frankie Yick	Liberal	Company Director	University of Hong Kong University of Birmingham	2012	1954
GC	Kowloon East	Wu Chi-wai	Democratic	Legislative Councillor/ District Councillor	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	2012	1962
FC	Tourism	Yiu Si-wing	Independent	Deputy chair of China Travel Service	N/A	2012	1952
FC	Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication	Ma Fung-kwok	New Forum	Managing Director	Hong Kong Polytechnic	1996	1955
FC	Information Technology	Charles Mok	Prof Commons	Legislative Councillor	Purdue University	2012	1964
GC	New Territories East	Chan Chi-chuen	People Power	Legislative Councillor	Chinese University of Hong Kong	2012	1972
GC	New Territories West	Chan Han-pan	DAB/NTAS	Legislative Councillor/ District Councillor	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	2012	1975
GC	New Territories West	Leung Che-cheung	DAB/NTAS	Legislative Councillor/ District Councillor	N/A	2012	1957
FC	Accountancy	Kenneth Leung	Prof Commons	Tax Consultant/ Accountant	London School of Economics and Political Science Hong Kong Polytechnic University	2012	1962
GC	New Territories West	Alice Mak	FTU	Legislative Councillor/ District Councillor	Chinese University of Hong Kong	2012	1971
GC	New Territories West	Kwok Ka-ki	Civic	Urologist	University of Hong Kong	2004	1961
GC	Hong Kong Island	Kwok Wai-keung	FTU	Legislative Councillor/ District Councillor	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	2012	1978
FC	Legal	Dennis Kwok	Civic (Prof Commons)	Barrister-at-law	King's College, University of London University of Hong Kong	2012	1978
FC	Financial Services	Christopher Cheung	BPA	Securities Dealer	City University of Hong Kong	2012	1953
GC	New Territories East	Fernando Cheung	Labour	Lecturer	Hong Kong Baptist University California State University University of California, Berkeley	2004	1957
GC	Kowloon West	Helena Wong	Democratic	Lecturer	Chinese University of Hong Kong University of California at Los Angeles	2012	1959
FC	Education	Ip Kin-yuen	PTU	Legislative Councillor/ Teacher	University of Hong Kong	2012	1962
GC	New Territories East	Elizabeth Quat	DAB	Legislative Councillor	Greenwich University, Hawaii	2012	1967
FC	Commercial (Second)	Martin Liao	Independent	Barrister-at-law	University College London	2012	1957
FC	Labour	Poon Siu-ping	FLU	Trade Union Staff	N/A	2012	1957
GC	Kowloon West	Chiang Lai-wan	DAB	Legislative Councillor	Concordia University Chinese University of Hong Kong Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	2012	1955
FC	Engineering	Lo Wai-kwok	BPA	Engineer	University of Hong Kong Chinese University of Hong Kong University of Warwick	2012	1953
FC	Textiles and Garment	Chung Kwok-pan	Liberal	Merchant	Robert Gordon University Stirling University	2012	1963
GC	New Territories East	Alvin Yeung	Civic	Barrister-at-law	University of Western Ontario Peking University University of Bristol University of Hong Kong	2016	1981
GC	New Territories West	Andrew Wan	Democratic	Legislative Councillor	City University of Hong Kong University of Essex	2016	1969
GC	New Territories West	Eddie Chu	Independent	Community Organiser	Chinese University of Hong Kong	2016	1977
FC	Industrial (Second)	Jimmy Ng	Independent^a	Company Director	University of Hong Kong	2016	1970
GC	New Territories West	Junius Ho	Independent	Solicitor	Anglia Ruskin University	2016	1962
FC	Labour	Ho Kai-ming[lower-alpha 2]	FTU	Legislative Councillor/ District Councillor	Chinese University of Hong Kong	2016	1985
GC	New Territories East	Lam Cheuk-ting	Democratic	Legislative Councillor/ District Councillor	Chinese University of Hong Kong	2016	1977
FC	District Council (Second)	Holden Chow	DAB	Solicitor	London School of Economics and Political Science University of Hong Kong	2016	1979
FC	Wholesale and Retail	Shiu Ka-fai	Liberal	Company Director	University of Auckland	2016	1970
FC	Social Welfare	Shiu Ka-chun	Independent	University Teacher	Hong Kong Baptist University	2016	1970
GC	Kowloon East	Wilson Or	DAB	Legislative Councillor	N/A	2016	1973
GC	New Territories East	Yung Hoi-yan	NPP	Barrister-at-law	University of British Columbia City University of Hong Kong	2016	1977
FC	Medical	Pierre Chan	Independent	Doctor	University of Hong Kong	2016	1976
FC	Finance	Chan Chun-ying	Independent	Advisor	Northeast Louisiana University	2016	1960
GC	Hong Kong Island	Tanya Chan	Civic	Barrister-at-law	University of Hong Kong	2008	1971
GC	Hong Kong Island	Cheung Kwok-kwan	DAB	Solicitor	City University of Hong Kong	2016	1974
GC	Hong Kong Island	Hui Chi-fung	Democratic	Legislative Councillor	City University of Hong Kong	2016	1982
FC	Labour	Luk Chung-hung	FTU	Legislative Councillor/ District Councillor	Open University of Hong Kong	2016	1978
FC	District Council (First)	Lau Kwok-fan	DAB	Legislative Councillor	Chinese University of Hong Kong	2016	1981
FC	Heung Yee Kuk	Kenneth Lau	BPA	Merchant	London School of Economics and Political Science	2016	1966
GC	New Territories West	Cheng Chung-tai	Civic Passion	Legislative Councillor	Hong Kong Polytechnic University Peking University	2016	1983
FC	District Council (Second)	Kwong Chun-yu	Democratic	Legislative Councillor	N/A	2016	1983
GC	Kowloon East	Jeremy Tam	Civic	Pilot	University of Queensland University of New South Wales	2016	1975
GC	Hong Kong Island^b	Nathan Law[lower-alpha 1]	Demosisto	Legislative Councillor	Lingnan University	2016	1993
FC	Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape^b	Yiu Chung-yim[lower-alpha 1]	Independent	Lecturer	University of Hong Kong	2016	1964
GC	Kowloon West^b	Lau Siu-lai[lower-alpha 1]	Independent	Lecturer	Chinese University of Hong Kong	2016	1976
GC	New Territories East^b	Sixtus Leung[lower-alpha 3]	Youngspiration	N/A	City University of Hong Kong	2016	1986
GC	Kowloon West^b	Yau Wai-ching[lower-alpha 3]	Youngspiration	N/A	Lingnan University	2016	1991

Supplementary members

GC/ FC	Constituency	Elected Members	Elected Party	Occupation	Education	First Assumed Office	Born In
GC	New Territories East	Gary Fan[lower-alpha 4]	Neo Democrats	Legislative Councillor/ District Councillor	Academy of Art University San Francisco State University	2012	1966
GC	Hong Kong Island	Au Nok-hin[lower-alpha 4]	Independent	Legislative Councillor/ District Councillor	Chinese University of Hong Kong	2018	1987
GC	Kowloon West	Vincent Cheng	DAB	Legislative Councillor/ District Councillor	University of Auckland	2018	1979
FC	Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape	Tony Tse	Independent	Surveyor	Hong Kong Polytechnic	2012	1954
GC	Kowloon West	Chan Hoi-yan	Independent	Legislative Councillor	Hong Kong Baptist University	2018	1977

By-elections

11 March 2018, by-election for Hong Kong Island, Kowloon West, New Territories East and Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape. Au Nok-hin (Independent democrat), Vincent Cheng (DAB), Gary Fan (Neo Democrats), and Tony Tse (pro-Beijing independent) were the winners in the respective constituencies.
25 November 2018 by-election for Kowloon West. Chan Hoi-yan (nonpartisan, supported by the pro-Beijing camp) was elected to replace independent democrat Lau Siu-lai after she was disqualified in the oath-taking controversy.

Other changes

2016

Claudia Mo (Kowloon West) announced her resignation from the Civic Party and served under the label of "HK First" on 14 November.[6]

2017

Michael Tien (New Territories West) announced his resignation from the New People's Party on 10 April and formed his own political group Roundtable.[7]

2018

Jimmy Ng (Industrial (Second)) joined the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA).[8]

Committees

House Committee— Chair: Dennis Kwok
- Parliamentary Liaison Subcommittee— Chair: Ip Kin-yuen
Finance Committee— Chair: Chan Kin-por
- Establishment Subcommittee— Chair: Regina Ip
- Public Works Subcommittee— Chair: Lo Wai-kwok
Public Accounts Committee— Chair: Abraham Shek
Committee on Members' Interests— Chair: Yiu Si-wing
Committee on Rules of Procedure— Chair: Paul Tse

Panels

Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services— Chair: Priscilla Leung
Panel on Commerce and Industry— Chair: Wu Chi-wai (2016–18), Yiu Si-wing (2018–19)
Panel on Constitutional Affairs— Chair: Martin Liao (2016–18), Cheung Kwok-kwan (2018–19)
Panel on Development— Chair: Tommy Cheung (2016–18), Leung Che-cheung (2018–19)
Panel on Economic Development— Chair: Jeffrey Lam (2016–18), Chung Kwok-pan (2018–19)
Panel on Education— Chair: Ann Chiang (2016–18), Ip Kin-yuen (2018–19)
Panel on Environmental Affairs— Chair: Tanya Chan (2016–18), Junius Ho (2018–19)
Panel on Financial Affairs— Chair: Christopher Cheung (2016–17; 2018–19), Kenneth Leung (2017–18)
Panel on Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene— Chair: Helena Wong (2016–17), Steven Ho (2017–18), Kwok Ka-ki (2018–19)
Panel on Health Services— Chair: Joseph Lee (2016–18), Pierre Chan (2018–19)
Panel on Home Affairs— Chair: Ma Fung-kwok (2016–18), Kwok Wai-keung (2018–19)
Panel on Housing— Chair: Alice Mak (2016–18), Wilson Or (2018–19)
Panel on Information Technology and Broadcasting— Chair: Elizabeth Quat (2016–17; 2018–19), Charles Mok (2017–18)
Panel on Manpower— Chair: Leung Yiu-chung (2016–17), Kwok Wai-keung (2017–18), Fernando Cheung (2016–18)
Panel on Public Service— Chair: Kwok Wai-keung (2016–17), Poon Siu-ping (2017–18), Gary Fan (2018–19)
Panel on Security— Chair: Chan Hak-kan
Panel on Transport— Chair: Chan Han-pan (2016–17; 2018–19), Frankie Yick (2017–18)
Panel on Welfare Services— Chair: Shiu Ka-chun (2016–18), Kwong Chun-yu (2018–19)

Notes

Disqualified on 14 July 2017 over oath-taking controversy.
Resigned on 1 June 2020 to take the place of Under Secretary for Labour and Welfare.
Disqualified on 15 November 2016 over oath-taking controversy.
Disqualified on 17 December 2019 as the March 2018 Legislative Council by-election was ruled as invalid.

References

"Pro-democracy lawmakers Au Nok-hin and Gary Fan lose seats as Hong Kong's top court rejects election petition appeals". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. 2019-12-17. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
"Andrew Leung becomes president of Hong Kong Legco after dispute over British nationality". South China Morning Post. 12 October 2016.
"19 minutes of chaos: Legco president calls pro-establishment camp walkout 'unfortunate', plans new oaths for localists". South China Morning Post. 19 October 2016.
"Democrats decry 'coup' as pro-Beijing lawmaker seeks to take over vetting of China extradition bill". Hong Kong Free Press. 6 May 2019.
"Hong Kong government condemns 'disorderly and uncontrollable conditions' after Legco chaos halts meeting of committee reviewing extradition bill". South China Morning Post. 11 May 2019.
"Hong Kong lawmaker Claudia Mo resigns from Civic Party citing 'differences' over localism and other issues". South China Morning Post. 14 November 2016.
"【新民黨分裂】直播田北辰宣佈退黨：因了解而分開". Apple Daily. 14 November 2016.
"政Whats噏：吳永嘉入工商界政黨　一餐飯決定". on.cc. 2018-12-22.

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[dq2-6] Disqualified on 14 July 2017 over oath-taking controversy.

[resigned-7] Resigned on 1 June 2020 to take the place of Under Secretary for Labour and Welfare.

[dq1-8] Disqualified on 15 November 2016 over oath-taking controversy.

[dq3-9] Disqualified on 17 December 2019 as the March 2018 Legislative Council by-election was ruled as invalid.

[1] "Pro-democracy lawmakers Au Nok-hin and Gary Fan lose seats as Hong Kong's top court rejects election petition appeals". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. 2019-12-17. Retrieved 2019-12-17.

[2] "Andrew Leung becomes president of Hong Kong Legco after dispute over British nationality". South China Morning Post. 12 October 2016.

[3] "19 minutes of chaos: Legco president calls pro-establishment camp walkout 'unfortunate', plans new oaths for localists". South China Morning Post. 19 October 2016.

[4] "Democrats decry 'coup' as pro-Beijing lawmaker seeks to take over vetting of China extradition bill". Hong Kong Free Press. 6 May 2019.

[5] "Hong Kong government condemns 'disorderly and uncontrollable conditions' after Legco chaos halts meeting of committee reviewing extradition bill". South China Morning Post. 11 May 2019.

[10] "Hong Kong lawmaker Claudia Mo resigns from Civic Party citing 'differences' over localism and other issues". South China Morning Post. 14 November 2016.

[11] "【新民黨分裂】直播田北辰宣佈退黨：因了解而分開". Apple Daily. 14 November 2016.

[12] "政Whats噏：吳永嘉入工商界政黨　一餐飯決定". on.cc. 2018-12-22.