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Chapter 8 Conclusion

64.

The proposals discussed in Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of this Green Paper may be summarised as follows

The Legislative Council (Chapter 5)

(a) the appointed Unofficial members of the Legislative Council should be replaced progressively by members elected indirectly

(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

constituencies,

and there should be a

functional

gradual

reduction in the number of

of Official members of the Legislative Council.

(b) the eventual composition of the Legislative Council by 1991

should be -

(i) 20 members elected by the

electoral college,

(ii) 20 members elected by the

functional constituencies,

(iii) 10 Official members.

(c) these arrangements should be introduced in three stages in 1985, 1988 and 1991 - following the District Board elections in those years.

The Executive Council (Chapter 6)

(d)

the majority of the appointed of the

Unofficial

Executive Council should be

members

replaced

progressively

by

members

elected

by

the

Unofficial

members

of

the

Legislative

Council

from

among

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