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of Hong Kong to participate in this important task.
In contacts with the Chinese Government, the
Government have expressed the view that the people of
Hong Kong will attach the greatest importance to the
Basic Law clearly and unambiguously reflecting all
the provisions of the Joint Declaration.
(a)
STRUCTURE AND MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT
Review of Developments in Representative
Government
16.
The system of representative government in
Hong Kong, which has changed and developed over the
years, is now structured on а framework of three
separate, but inter-connected,
tiers
District
Boards, the Municipal Councils and the Legislative
Council.
17.
The District Boards are advisory bodies
established in each of the 19 urban and New
Territories
administrative districts.
Some
two-thirds of District Board
members are directly
elected, on the basis of
franchise which includes
all adults over the age of twenty-one years who have
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