The Office of the Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils was an office for the

Unofficial Member Unofficial Member is the name given to individuals who are members of the Executive Council of Hong Kong and Legislative Council of Hong Kong but who are not members of the Hong Kong Government. The terms "Unofficial" (or "non-official") and ...

s of the

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and

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Councils (UMELCO) of

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established in 1963. Its purpose was to promote close relationship of the two Councils and invite them to put forward their views on public interest or lodge individual complaints again the departments of

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. The office was established in August 1963 at Union House in Central. It was at first staffed with a stenographer/

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. On 16 September 1964 a full Secretary was appointed together with a clerk, a typist, and a messenger. On 8 May 1965, the office moved to

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. In 1985 UMELCO was renamed as Office of Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils or OMELCO following the

1985 Hong Kong electoral reform The 1985 Hong Kong electoral reform introduced the first ever indirect election to the colonial legislature during the last years of the British colonial rule in Hong Kong. The reform proposals was first carried out in the Green Paper: the Furth ...

and indirect elections for the

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. The office finally dissolved with the establishment of Commissioner for Administrative Complaints or COMAC in 1989 of now better known as Office of The Ombudsman of Hong Kong since 2001.

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