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INFO IMMEDIATE PEKING
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MY TWO IPTS: HONG KONG AGREEMENT:
PARLIAMENT
INDLA
PA
POISTRY Action Taken
и
RESTRICTED:
ANNUAL REPORT TO
FOLLOWING IS REMAINDER OF TEXT OF REVISED ANNUAL REPORT.
BEGINS:-
23.
THE FIRST ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WERE HELD
ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1985 (SIX 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 FORMS 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, TOGETHER WITH
REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL THE MAJOR FUNCTIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND
SECTORS OF HONG KONG SOCIETY. THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE IS THUS
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