15
remain as
a link
Secretary and the Attorney General, should ex-officio members of the Legislative Council as 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 by 1988.
42.
The total membership of the Legislative Council in 1988, resulting from all these proposed changes, would be 50.
43.
The following table
illustrates the above
proposals
Legislative
Council
members
Year
Current
1985 1988
(a)
Elected by
electoral
0
6
12
college
(b)
Elected by
functional
0
6
12
consti-
tuencies
(c) Appointed by Governor
29
23
16
(d) Official
members
18
13
10
Total
47
48
50