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representatives
to be
members of the Legislative
Council. The electoral college would be able to elect
anyone with certain prescribed qualifications, e.g.
minimum
minimum length of
on of residence
Hong
These
age and
Kong, and not necessarily from among their number.
would be introduced progressively
with a view to the eventual number of members elected by
arrangements
the electoral college being 20.
It is proposed that these new arrangements for
election of Unofficial members of the
52.
the
indirect
Legislative
Council
to
represent
functional
constituencies and geographical constituencies should be
introduced in three stages in 1985, 1988, and 1991.
These years have been proposed on the assumption that
all Unofficial members of the Legislative Council would
hold office for a term of three years, because they are
the years in which District Board elections will take
place and because the largest proportion of 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.
addition, although it would give
it would give those District Board
members newly elected in 1985 more time
time to settle down,
In
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