7th Legislative Council of Hong Kong

The Seventh Legislative Council of Hong Kong is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. It is scheduled to meet in the Legislative Council Complex, from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2025, overlapping the six months of Carrie Lam as the fifth term of the Chief Executive and the sixth term of Chief Executive. The membership of the Legislative Council will be determined in the December 2021 election.

Originally scheduled for 6 September 2020, Chief Executive Carrie Lam postponed the election for a whole year on 31 July 2020. On 11 March 2021, the National People's Congress (NPC) passed a decision to drastically overhaul Hong Kong electoral system, which was followed by the Carrie Lam administration promulgated the Improving Electoral System (Consolidated Amendments) Ordinance 2021, which changed the general election of the seventh term of the Legislative Council from 5 September to 19 December 2021. Under the Ordinance, the membership of the Legislative Council increased from 70 to 90 and the members were elected by the Election Committee with 40 seats, functional constituencies with 30 seats, and geographical constituencies with 20 seats respectively.

Major events

 * 1 January 2022: Commencement of this Council's term of office.
 * 3 January 2022: Oath-taking ceremony.
 * 4 January 2022: Nomination for the president. Andrew Leung re-elected unopposed as the only candidate.
 * 10 January 2022: Originally scheduled for election of the president but cancelled.
 * 12 January 2022: Council's first session was convened.
 * 19 June 2022: Resignation of Horace Cheung, Alice Mak, Sun Dong and Nelson Lam after appointed as officials of the new government headed by Chief Executive-elect John Lee.
 * 18 December 2022: By-election for vacancies of Election Committee constituency. Chan Wing-kwong, Adrian Ho, Shang Hailong, William Wong elected.
 * 27 December 2022: Resignation of Stephen Wong after appointed as head of Chief Executive's Policy Unit.

Leadership

 * President: Andrew Leung (BPA)

Pro-Beijing camp

 * Convenor: Martin Liao
 * Deputy Convenor: Starry Lee

Non-aligned

 * Tik Chi-yuen (as the only member who does not belong to the Pro-Beijing camp )

Secretariat

 * Secretary General: Kenneth Chen

2022

 * Sunny Tan (Textiles and Garment) joined the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA).
 * Scott Leung (Kowloon West), Kitson Yang (Kowloon Central), Connie Lam (New Territories South East), and Gary Zhang (New Territories North) formed the A4 Alliance.

Committees

 * House Committee
 * Parliamentary Liaison Subcommittee
 * Finance Committee
 * Establishment Subcommittee
 * Public Works Subcommittee
 * Public Accounts Committee
 * Committee on Members' Interests
 * Committee on Rules of Procedure

Panels

 * Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services
 * Panel on Commerce and Industry
 * Panel on Constitutional Affairs
 * Panel on Development
 * Panel on Economic Development
 * Panel on Education
 * Panel on Environmental Affairs
 * Panel on Financial Affairs
 * Panel on Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene
 * Panel on Health Services
 * Panel on Home Affairs
 * Panel on Housing
 * Panel on Information Technology and Broadcasting
 * Panel on Manpower
 * Panel on Security
 * Panel on Transport
 * Panel on Welfare Services