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Note 3
The Legislature
number of issues regarding the relationship legislature and the executive have been 2. This note considers other issues legislature including its possible of office, Presidency and powers and
A between the discussed in Note relating to the composition,
functions.
term
Composition
2.
Section I of Annex I to the Joint Declaration provides that "The legislature of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be constituted by elections".
3.
Paper II of May 1986 suggested that the methods of election, at least in general terms, would need to be specified in the Basic Law.
Note 2 of October 1986 discussed possible ways of "validating" the membership of the present groups of Official and Appointed Members in order to ensure that the Chief Executive continues to enjoy sufficient support for his policies in the legislature and that government business is carried out efficiently.
4.
The existing legislature comprises members elected or appointed by a variety of means. Having regard to the ideas which are emerging in the process of the 1987 Review of Developments in Representative Government and of consultation on the drafting of the Basic Law, it would seem that the legislature of the future SAR might comprise three main groups of elected members :
5.
(a)
(b)
(c)
members elected by functional constituencies;
members elected by a system of elections based on geographical constituencies, either on the present basis or by direct elections;
members elected by a broadly based
based "grand electoral college".
Hong Kong already has experience of the first method of election, i.e. by functional constituencies, and it appears that this form of election has general support within the community. The question of whether the electoral college system should be retained and further developed, or should be replaced instead by a system of direct elections to the Legislative Council, is one of the issues put forward for public comment in the 1987 Review.
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