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holding office as an elected member if he is
"disqualified from
holding office as an elected
member under any enactment". Clause 6(2) is an
enactment and therefore it may be held that the effect
of Clause 21(e) read with Clause 6 (2) is that if a
candidate who is elected once has cold feet he remains
disqualified for life and not merely required to vacate
his seat under Clause 9 and possibly remain disqualified
for the rest of the legislative term for which he was
elected. This seems a little harsh.
Clause 14 (2). The second part of this Clause is new.
It would appear to entitle a trade union to be registered
in both parts of the labour electoral division and,
apparently to vote in both parts of the constituency
ie for two elected members see paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Memorandum. You may wish to seek an explanation of this proposal.
Clause 21 (h). The cross-reference should be to
paragraph (c), not to paragraph (d).
Clause 24 (d). I commented in my previous minute
that I would have expected some indication should be
provided in the principle legislation as to the kind
of circumstances in which the countermandering of an
election was permissible. Hong Kong does not appear
to consider this necessary. I should point out however
that provision for countermandering elections on the
death of a candidate is contained in a principle
United Kingdom Act, not in regulations.
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/Clause 28 (g)