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38.
e. 8.
All those functional constituencies from which members of the Legislative Council are drawn at present, commerce, industry, the medical profession, the legal profession, educational institutions, the financial sector and labour organisations, would be represented on the Legislative Council. There may also be some other functional constituencies which should be represented on the Council if they cover a sufficiently large and important sector of the community to justify inclusion, e.g. traditional organisations and other major professions. The number of representatives to be elected by each functional constituency would vary according to its size and significance.
39.
arrangements
and
functional
in
It is proposed that to start with, these new for the indirect election of Unofficial members of the Legislative Council to represent
constituencies geographical constituencies should be introduced in two stages 1985 and 1988. These years have been proposed on the
that assumption
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 delay the introduction of the proposed new arrangements by one year; and, 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 years 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 introduced by stages, it is proposed that the number of appointed Unofficial members should be progressively reduced with a view to their total number being 16 by 1988.
41.
officers
in
is
the
In the case of the Official members i.t
that the principal proposed Administration, i.e. the Chief Secretary, the Financial
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