{"id":138324,"date":"2025-07-05T05:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=138324"},"modified":"2025-07-05T05:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:42:40","slug":"new-code-of-conduct-can-lead-to-lawmakers-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=138324","title":{"rendered":"New code of conduct can lead to lawmakers&#8217; suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1811750_1_L_20250703124248.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>The Legislative Council has drafted a new code of conduct for its next term to enhance members&#8217; self-discipline and oversight, which will include a formal sanctions mechanism with penalties ranging from warnings to suspension of duties for misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Legco president Andrew Leung said on Thursday that the code outlines expectations for members&#8217; conduct and work while emphasising that lawmakers must consistently uphold high standards of personal behaviour&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1811750-20250703.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legislative Council has drafted a new code of condu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}