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constituencies.
reduced, to an extent, if the constituencies concerned were
provided with more than one seat. Option (iii) would be
favoured by those sectors seeking recognition as functional
Careful judgements would be required,
however, as to which groups should or should not be
included. In deciding which additional group or groups
merit inclusion as functional constituencies, it would be
necessary to have regard to the following principles :
(a)
functional constituencies should be substantial
and of importance in the community;
(b)
any new constituency should be clearly defined to
avoid difficulties over who qualifies for
inclusion and how the vote in each constituency is
organised;
(c)
(a)
constituencies
should not be based on ideology,
dogma or religion;
be
particular groups or bodies should not
not represented
in more than one functional constituency.
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