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benefitting from renewed confidence, the Financial
the Financial Secretary looks
forward to a return to balanced budgets in a year's time.
(ii) FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
10. Meanwhile, in the aftermath of the agreement a further stage in
the development of representative government in Hong Kong is taking
place this year:
(a) The second round of elections to the local government District
Boards took place in March. 213 seats were contested by nearly
500 candidates, and over 476,000 people, a third of the
registered electorate, voted.
(b)
(c)
A provisional Regional Council is being established to provide a regional representative body for the New Territories (having
the same functions as does the Urban Council for Hong Kong
Island and Kowloon); and
In September the first (indirect) elections to Hong Kong's
Legislative Council will take place, to select 24 of the
Council's 56 members. A further review of progress towards
representative government will take place in 1987, before the next Legislative Council elections scheduled for 1988.
Hong Kong Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
3 June 1985
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