MEMBERS OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE WILL BE ELECTED DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS. TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE NEXT URBAN COUNCIL AND NEW REGIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN 1986 WOULD RESULT IN THE DEFERMENT OF THE COMPLETE INTRODUCTION OF THE PROPOSED NEW ARRANGEMENTS BY ONE YEAR UNTIL 1992. IN ADDITION, ALTHOUGH IT WOULD GIVE THOSE DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS NEWLY ELECTED IN 1985 MORE TIME TO SETTLE DOWN,
IT
WOULD RESULT IN 18 MONTHS OF POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY EVERY THREE FOR THOSE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SEEKING RE-ELECTION, INSTEAD OF ONLY SIX MONTHS OF UNCERTAINTY IF THE ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TAKE PLACE IN THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER IN DISTRICT BOARD ELECTION YEARS. IT WOULD BE BETTER, THEREFORE, TO COMPLETE THE DISTRICT BOARD AND THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN THE SAME YEAR AND THEN HAVE A PERIOD OF TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF POLITICAL CERTAINTY BEFORE THE NEXT DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS.
40. AT THE SAME TIME AS THE PROPOSED ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE ELECTIONS OF UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL BY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES ARE INTRUDUCED BY STAGES, IT IS PROPOSED THAT THE NUMBER OF APPOINTED UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS SHOULD BE PROGRESSIVELY REDUCED WITH A VIEW TO THEIR COMPLETE REMOVAL BY
1991.
41. IN THE CASE OF THE OFFICIAL MEMBERS, IT IS PROPOSED THAT THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS IN THE ADMINISTRATION, 1.E. THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, SHOULD REMAIN AS EX-OFFICIO MEMBERVS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AS A LINK BETWEEN THE COUNCIL AND THE ADMINISTRATION. THERE WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO BE A NEED FOR A NUMBER OF OFFICIALS TO SIT, AS NOW, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, IN ORDER TO INTRODUCE FORMALLY LEGISLATION WITHIN THEIR FIELD OF COMPETENCE, ONCE THE DRAFT LEGISLATION HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, TO DISCUSS IT WITH THE SPECIALIST GROUPS OF UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WHICH EXAMINE SUCH LEGISLATION IN DETAIL, TO ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM MEMBERS ON THE POLICIES APPROVED BY THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL IN THEIR FIELDS AND TO ANSWER FOR THE ADMINISTRATION'S EXECUTION OF THEM. THERE NEED, HOWEVER, NOT BE AS MANY OFFICIALS AS IN THE PAST AND THE NUMBER OF OFFICIAL MEMBERS IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WILL BE REDUCED
PROGRESSIVELY TO 10.
42. THE TOTAL MEMBERSHIP OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN 1991, RESULTING FROM ALL THESE PROPOSED CHANGES, WOULD BE 50.
43. THE FOLLOWING TABLE ILLUSTRATES THE ABOVE PROPOSALS
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS CURRENT 1985 1988
1991
(A) ELECTED BY ELECTORAL
COLLEGE
5
10
20
(B) ELECTED BY FUNCTIONAL
CONSTITUENCIES
10
SECRET
5
10
20
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