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DEPENDABILITY WHICH THE SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES DICTATE'.
THE GREEN PAPER PROPOSED SPECIFICALLY:
6.
7.
(A) MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES OF OFFICIALS IN EVERY
DISTRICT:
(B) ADVISORY DISTRICT BOARDS IN EACH DISTRICT, BASED ON EXISTING CITY DISTRICT COMMITTEES AND DISTRICT ADVISORY BOARDS, INCLUDING APPOINTED AND ELECTED MEMBERS AND
MEMBERS OF URBCO:
(C) URBCO MEMBERSHIP INCREASED TO 30, HALF APPOINTED AND
HALF ELECTED.
FOLLOWING PUBLIC COMMENTS, GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER PUBLISHED JANUARY 1981 ON DETAILED IMPLEMENTATION OF GREEN PAPER
PROPOSALS. THIS WAS APPROVED AND PROPOSALS WERE PROGRESSIVELY IMPLEMENTED 1981-83. FIRST ELECTIONS TO THE DISTRICT BOARDS HELD IN 1982 (ON A WIDE FRANCHISE REQUIRING VOTERS TO BE OVER 21 AND 'HONG KONG BELONGERS'). SAME VOTING CRITERIA APPLIED TO URBCO
ELECTIONS 1983.
8.
MAY 1984 SAW NEXT STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT OF EXISTING
INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED:
9.
(A) THAT REPRESENTATIVE STATUS OF DISTRICT BOARDS WOULD BE ENHANCED BY DOUBLING NUMBER OF ELECTED MEMBERS IN
1985:
(B) THAT NEW REGIONAL COUNCIL (REGCO) TO BE ESTABLISHED IN 1986, WITH ELECTED ELEMENT, TO PROVIDE FOR URBAN AREA OF HONG KONG THOSE SERVICES ALREADY PROVIDED IN URBAN
AREA BY URBCO.
JULY 1984 GOVERNMENT PUBLISHED GREEN PAPER ON 'FURTHER
DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN HONG KONG'. REVIEWED
DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 1973 AND NOTED THAT IN THAT PERIOD 'RECOGNITION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ROLE OF CONSULTATION IN THE ORDERING OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN HONG KONG, AND A PUBLIC EXPECTATION OF CONSULTATION IN RESPECT BOTH OF SPECIFIC MAJOR ISSUES AND THE GENERALITY OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES,
HAVE EMERGED. THE GOVERNMENT HAS ENCOURAGED THIS PROCESS. THIS IN TURN HAS LED TO AN INCREASING NUMBER OF, REPRESENTATIONS FROM INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND VARIOUS INTEREST GROUPS FOR
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