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indirect. 24 members, out of
new Council of 56,
electoral college of
were chosen, 12 of them by an
District Board, Urban Council and Regional Council
(ie local government level) members and 12 by
functional constituencies representing the main
professional, commercial and other groups.
The
remaining 32 members continue to be appointed by the
Governor.
The elections were keenly contested and
attracted encouraging interest among the Hong Kong
public and media.
8.
A review of progress
Government will be
this year,
towards representative
carried out in 1987. In April of
Sir Y K Pao expressed, quite forcefully,
to Sir Percy Cradock the view that movement towards
representative government in Hong Kong was too fast:
he indicated that this was the Chinese view. We
have received similar expressions of concern from
unofficial sources.
aimed less
at
the Chinese Government through a variety of
However, this appears to be
the electoral process to be
inaugurated on 26 September than as an early warning
of Chinese views in anticipation of the Hong Kong
Government's review in 1987.
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9.
At the time of the signature of the Joint
Declaration we exchanged Memoranda with the Chinese
on nationality. Under this exchange we agreed that
Hong Kong people would lost British Dependent
Territories citizenship on 1 July 1997 but would
retain a form of British nationality for one
generation which would not be transmissible to their
children.
The Hong Kong
legislate to implement this Memorandum and to
create a new nationality status known as British
National (Overseas) through an Order in Council.
This Order in Council has now been drafted and will
be introduced to Parliament in early December.
Act enables us
to
We
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