Kingsley Sit Ho-yin (born 1949,

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) was the member of the

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. Sit first attempted in the 1985 Legislative Council election, the first election of the colony's legislature in the

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electoral college consisting of members of the

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and Yuen Long District Board but was lost to

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. In the 1988 Legislative Council election, he successfully gained a seat in the South Kowloon electoral college. In June 1991, Sit put forward a motion to urge the government to resume the carrying out of the death penalty immediately. The death penalty in Hong Kong was mandatory sentence for murder, however no executive had been carried out since 1967. The motion was defeated and

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's amended motion of abolishing the death penalty was passed. The death penalty was repealed in 1993. Kingsley Sit strongly opposed the decriminalisation of homosexuality. In the council meeting on 10 July 1991, he stated that "decriminalization, of homosexuality is contrary to the moral standards of the traditional Chinese society." Sit was defeated in the elections to the Legislative Council in September 1991 general election, 1991 by-election in December 1995 and 1996 election within the Selection Committee for the

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. After the

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, he was elected to the 800-member

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which is responsible for electing the

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in 2005 and 2006 through

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. The powerful Heung Yee Kuk chairman

Lau Wong-fat Lau Wong-fat, Grand Bauhinia Medal, GBM, Gold Bauhinia Star, GBS, Order of the British Empire, OBE, Justice of the peace, JP (; 15 October 1936 – 23 July 2017) was a Hong Kong businessman and politician. He had been the long-time chairman of ...

is the brother of Kingsley Sit's wife.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sit, Kingsley 1949 births Living people Hong Kong surveyors District councillors of Tuen Mun District Progressive Hong Kong Society politicians HK LegCo Members 1988–1991 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012 Heung Yee Kuk