6th Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Major events

2016–17

• 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. 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.
• 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.
• 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

• 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 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.
• 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 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.

  Major legislation

Enacted

• 14 June 2018: Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link Bill
• 12 June 2020: National Anthem Bill

  Proposed

• Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation Bill 2019

  Composition

Graphical representation of the Legislative Council

Leadership

List of members

Supplementary members

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, Vincent Cheng, Gary Fan, and Tony Tse were the winners in the respective constituencies.
• 25 November 2018 by-election for Kowloon West. Chan Hoi-yan was elected to replace independent democrat Lau Siu-lai after she was disqualified in the oath-taking controversy.

  Other changes

2016

• Claudia Mo announced her resignation from the Civic Party and served under the label of "HK First" on 14 November.

  2017

• Michael Tien announced his resignation from the New People's Party on 10 April and formed his own political group Roundtable.

  2018

• Jimmy Ng joined the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong.

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