{{Short description|Hong Kong politician (born 1949)}} {{family name hatnote|[[Xue (surname)|Sit]]|Kingsley Sit|Sit Ho-yin|lang=Hong Kong}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Kingsley Sit Ho-yin | native_name = {{nobold|薛浩然}} | honorific_suffix = | image = | birth_date = 1949 | birth_place = [[Hong Kong]] | office = Member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]] | term_start = 12 October 1988 | term_end = 22 August 1991 | constituency = [[Kowloon West (1998 constituency)#1985–1988 electoral colleges|South Kowloon]] | predecessor = [[Jackie Chan Chai-keung|Jackie Chan]] | successor = | alma_mater = | occupation = surveyor,<br />loss adjuster,<br />company director | party = [[Progressive Hong Kong Society]] (1980s) | death_place = | citizenship = | spouse = | relations = | children = | portfolio = }}
'''Kingsley Sit Ho-yin''' (born 1949, [[Hong Kong]]) was the member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]].
Sit first attempted in the [[1985 Hong Kong legislative election|1985 Legislative Council election]], the first election of the colony's legislature in the [[New Territories West (constituency)#West New Territories|New Territories West]] electoral college consisting of members of the [[Tuen Mun District Council|Tuen Mun]] and [[Yuen Long District Council|Yuen Long District Board]] but was lost to [[Tai Chin-wah]]. In the [[1988 Hong Kong legislative election|1988 Legislative Council election]], he successfully gained a seat in the [[Kowloon West (1998 constituency)#South Kowloon|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 [[Martin Lee]]'s amended motion of abolishing the death penalty was passed.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Other Hong Kong Report, 1992|first1=Joseph Y. S.|last1=Cheng|first2=Paul C. K.|last2=Kwong|publisher=Chinese University Press|year=1992|page=35}}</ref> The death penalty was repealed in 1993.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."<ref>{{cite web|title=Hansard|work=Legislative Council of Hong Kong|date=10 July 1991}}</ref>
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 (Hong Kong)|Selection Committee]] for the [[Provisional Legislative Council]].
After the [[handover of Hong Kong]], he was elected to the 800-member [[Election Committee]] which is responsible for electing the [[Chief Executive of Hong Kong]] in 2005 and 2006 through [[Heung Yee Kuk]].
The powerful Heung Yee Kuk chairman [[Lau Wong-fat]] is the brother of Kingsley Sit's wife.
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|hk}} {{s-bef|before=[[Jackie Chan Chai-keung|Jackie Chan]]}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of the Legislative Council|district=[[Kowloon West (1998 constituency)#South Kowloon|South Kowloon]]|years=1988–1991}} {{s-aft|after=[[Frederick Fung]]<br />[[James To]]|as=Representatives of [[Kowloon West (1998 constituency)|Kowloon West]]}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sit, Kingsley}} [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Hong Kong surveyors]] [[Category:District councillors of Tuen Mun District]] [[Category:Progressive Hong Kong Society politicians]] [[Category:HK LegCo Members 1988–1991]] [[Category:Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012]] [[Category:Heung Yee Kuk]]