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Mr Wilford
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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION: HOW MANY MEMBERS OF THE HONG KONG
EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS ARE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS?
1. The attached Parliamentary Question by Mr James Lamond MP
is for oral reply on 15 May.
2. I submit a draft answer together with Notes for Supplement-
aries. The draft is based on the Governor's advice (Hong
Kong telegram No 393 is attached).
3.
A list of members of the Executive and Legislative
Councils is also attached. The Executive Council consists of
8 Nominated Unofficial and 6 Official Members. In the
Legislative Council there are 12 Official and 13 Nominated
Unofficial Members, but the Governor, as President, has an
original and a casting vote, thus maintaining an official
majority.
4.
When the appointment of the Unofficial Members of the
Executive and Legislative Councils came to an end on 31
December 1971, it was decided to reappoint all of them for a further six months to give Sir Murray MacLehose (who had only assumed office on 19 November, 1971) time to make up his own
We mind about the future composition of the Councils.
expect to receive the Governor's recommendations shortly.
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