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canes and
ohrained diministratule redren in 22% of the
income groups emerging at this level to advisory
committees and eventually to the Legislative Council
should be encouraged. Some expansion of the Legis-
lative Council is also desirable, uk to enable it
to deal with the increasing sophistication of
Government and with the extra-legislative duties of
unofficial members. should collective perform the fune-
tion-ombudsmen with considerable-suceEss
Member d
Clearly, the
appointment of representatives emerging from the lower income groups will require the payment of allowances
to
unofficial members of the Executive and. Legislative
Councils. The existing translation, secretarial and
research staff of the office of the unofficial members
of the Executive and Legislative Councils will also
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need to be strengthened.
In due course, it might
be desirable to appoint "unofficial members", drawn
from the Executive Council but answerable in the
Legislative Council for particular fields of policy
in the same way that official members are at present.
In these ways, the Legislative Council can be made
more representative and less alien and more responsive,
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ay. We have considered the arguments for and against
a substantial increase in the size of the Legislative
Council, and the question of whether it is possible
and desirable to differentiate the functions of the
Executive and Legislative Councils more clearly than
at present. On the first, we conclude that a
Legislative Council representing all aspects of Hong
Dong society should only be as large as is necessary to
carry out its functions. There is, in other words, no
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