ICAC Retired Officers Association

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1 ICAC Retired Officers Association Annual General Meeting held on 29 July 2011 at Disciplined Services Sports & Recreation Club Present : Daniel Tung (Chairman) Alice Tso (Vice Chairman) Tony Lui (Secretary) Louis Cheung (Treasurer) Ricky Hui Wong Kwok Leung Dominic Leung Raymond Chow Tommy Yeung Tony Kwok Francis Lee Sydney Sun Louisa Cheung Maurice Yuen Ng Kin Wah John Wong Samuel Chung Teresa Wu Raymond Ho Lai Man Ying Betty Wu Monica Wong Margaret Poon Simon Cheng Dominic Lee Eva Wan Confirmation of minutes of EGM on 22 June 2011 Samuel Chung proposed, KL Wong seconded and the minutes of the EGM held on 22 June 2011 were confirmed as read. Election of Office Bearers and Executive Committee Members for Tony Lui advised the meeting that 12 nominations had been received for the 12 seats in the Executive Committee. The nominations were : Ricky Hui, KL Wong, Samuel Chung, Sydney Sun, Louis Cheung, Michael Ko, Alice Tso, John Wong, Maurice Yuen, Dominic Leung, Teresa Wu and Raymond Chow. 3. Among the 12 nominations, Ricky Hui was nominated to be the chairman, KL Wong the vice-chairman, Samuel Chung the Secretary and Sydney Sun the Treasurer.

2 4. As there was no other nominations, the 12 nominees were elected by members present with no objection. The meeting endorsed the appointments of the office bearers in accordance with the nominations as follows : Chairman Ricky Hui Vice-Chairman Wong Kwok Leung Treasurer Sydney Sun Secretary Samuel Chung. 5. Daniel Tung as the outgoing chairman would be the ex-officio member of the Executive Committee. Vote of Thanks 6. Tony Kwok proposed, Raymond Chow seconded and members present gave a vote of thanks to the outgoing Executive Committee for their admirable service to the Association during their tenure. Inauguration Message 7. Ricky Hui as the new chairman took the chair of the meeting. He stated that he would undertake the chairmanship with the utmost effort and try to achieve the planned tasks. He had planned to have more social and recreational gatherings for members and families, including some voluntary and charity services which would be done with the assistance of Teresa Wu and John Wong. 8. Ricky thanked Tony Kwok for his research on the issue of getting recognition of the Association from the Commission. He would endeavour to accomplish the task of seeking proper recognition from the Commission, including the use of certain facilities in ICAC HQ by members, e.g. staff canteen. In this respect, some members of the in-coming Executive Committee had considered that the Association s constitution needed further polish to make it flawless, such as in the security aspect. He said that in order to seek wider support and advice, the Executive Committee would approach reputable and knowledgeable dignitaries to be our Patron, Honorary Presidents and Advisers. The constitution should therefore also be revised to dovetail with this. He invited Raymond Chow to present the proposed revision of the constitution.

3 Proposed Revision of Constitution 9. Raymond referred to the gist of the captioned paper tabled at the AGM for members reference. The revisions included :- (a) Stipulating ICAC HQ as the correspondence address of the association. (b) Stating clearly the post of Hon Presidents to be former staff members, etc. (c) Appointment of Patron and Advisors. (d) Deletion of the paragraph on provisional member as it referred to prospective members in late This had been overtaken by time and there was no need for such category of membership. (e) Addition of the phrase is convicted of a criminal offence in the sentence under termination of membership. (f) Stating the ineligibility to become a member which were (i) if convicted of a criminal offence, and (ii) if being terminated by the ICAC under S. 8(2) of the ICAC Ord. (g) Revising the number of members required to call for an EGM to ten (10) members, to facilitate the calling of EGM by ordinary members, to make this in line with the calling of AGM. (h) Stating clearly the tenure of sub-committees to lapse at the same time as the Executive Committee, or at an earlier time as decided by the Executive Committee appointing the sub-committees. Members Views on Revisions 10. Francis Lee opined that if the Hon President was placed under the Membership section, he/she would have to bear the liabilities of the ordinary member. As such, this would be better to be placed elsewhere in the constitution. 11. He said that the pre-requisites for Hon Presidents including former staff member, distinguished service and supportive.. The term of distinguished service was subject to interpretation. It would be desirable and more flexible to make this as one of the factors for consideration by an amendment of adding and/or before supportive In respect of the part on ineligibility to become member, it might be more relevant to change criminal offence to corruption offence.

4 13. Tony Kwok said that it might not be appropriate to state ICAC HQ as correspondence address as this would need the Commission s endorsement in the first instance. It also restricted the location of the address, if change was needed later. It would be flexible to retain the existing wording. Members agreed. 14. Tony said that other disciplined services appointed Hon President who might not be former officers, but ICAC was different and might need to be more stringent. In agreement with Francis view, he would propose to delete the phrase and have rendered distinguished service to the ICAC. Members agreed. 15. As regards the definition paragraph on termination of membership, members agreed to retain the existing version. 16. Referring to the new revision on the paragraph on ineligibility to become a member, Tony said that the existing constitution had already conferred discretionary authority to the Executive Committee to decline an undesirable character to become a member. Members agreed to retain the existing version. Honorary Appointments 17. As discussed, the meeting agreed to have an additional section of Honorary Appointments for the Executive Committee to propose and the AGM to appoint Patron, Hon Presidents and Advisors for the Association. 18. Ricky sought the approval of AGM for appointment of the following : (a) (b) (c) Lady Cater as Patron, meeting agreed; Mr. Jim Buckle and Mr.Tony Kwok as Hon Presidents, meeting agreed; and Mrs. Helen Yu and Mr. Francis Lee as Hon Advisors, meeting agreed. 19. Louis Cheung proposed for the Executive Committee to consider at a later time the appointment of Mr Neoh and Mr Sutherland as Hon Advisors. Raymond Chow proposed to consider Mr T L Yeung, former Chief Justice as Patron as well. 20. Referring to the proposal of appointing Stephen Char as Legal Advisor, members felt that there might be conflict of interest with such formal appointment. Any way, members saw that Stephen could give advice as and when necessary, as an ordinary member of the Association.

5 Appointment of Auditor 21. Ricky invited and Yeung Yung Wai accepted the appointment of auditor of the association. Closure of Meeting 22. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:10 p.m.