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Chapter 8 Conclusion
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The proposals discussed in Chapter 5 and 6 of this Green Paper may be summarised as follows
to of
The Legislative Council (Chapter 5) (a) Arrangements should be introduced provide for a substantial number Unofficial members of the Legislative Council to be elected indirectly
(b)
(c)
(i) by an electoral college composed of all members of the Urban Council, the new Regional Council, and the District Boards, and
(ii) by specified functional constituencies.
A number of appointed Unofficial members should be retained on the Council, for the time being.
The number of Official members of the Council should be gradually reduced.
(d) To start with, these arrangements should be introduced in two stages · in 1985 and 1988
following the District Board
elections in those years.
(e) The composition of the Legislative Council
by 1988 should be
(£)
(i) 12 Unofficial members elected by the
electoral college,
(ii) 12 Unofficial members elected by the
functional constituencies,
(iii) 16 appointed Unofficial members, and
(iv) 10 Official members.
in 1989, after the 1988 elections to the Council have taken place, there should be a review of the position with a view to deciding what further developments should be pursued.
The Executive Council (Chapter 6)
(8) The majority of the appointed Unofficial members of the Executive Council should be replaced progressively by members elected