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MY THREE IPTS: HONG KONG AGREEMENT: RESTRICTED:
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ANNUAL REPORT
FOLLOWING IS NEXT PART OF REVISED TEXT OF THE ANNUAL REPORT TO
PARLIAMENT.
BEGINS.
23. THE FIRST ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WERE HELD ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1985 (6 OF THE 24 NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS
WERE ELECTED UNOPPOSED). THE TURN-OUT RATE FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGES WAS 98.5 PER CENT: FOR THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES IT WAS 57.6 PER CENT, RANGING FROM 97.2 PER CENT IN THE SOCIAL
SERVICES CONSTITUENCY TO 45.1 PER CENT IN THE INDUSTRIAL
CONSTITUENCY. THE NEW COUNCIL MET FOR THE FIRST TIME ON 30
OCTOBER 1985 IN A NEW COUNCIL CHAMBER.
24.
THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IS THE APEX OF THE THREE LEVELS
OF GOVERNMENT. IN CONSTRUCTING THIS FRAMEWORK FOR MORE
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT SOUGHT TO
ESTABLISH CLOSE LINKS BETWEEN THE THREE LEVELS. URBAN
COUNCILLORS SIT ON THE URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS: REGIONAL DISTRICT
BOARD MEMBERS WILL SIT IN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL: MEMBERS OF
DISTRICT BOARDS AND OF THE TWO SECOND LEVEL COUNCILS SIT IN THE
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TOGETHER WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL THE
MAJOR FUNCTIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND SECTORS OF HONG KONG SOCIETY.
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