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68.
Some
interim adjustments to the
terms of
office of the District Boards and the Municipal
Councils are necessary to prepare for the new sequence
of elections. Accordingly, the Municipal Councils'
next term will last from April 1989 to March 1991. The
term of the District Boards beginning in March 1991
will also be adjusted so that, in
in the next set of
elections to be held after 1991, the District Board
elections will take place in August or September, i.e.
about six months before elections to the Municipal
Councils and one year before those to the Legislative
Council.
Ages of Entitlement to Vote and Eligibility for Office.
69.
There was much public interest in the issue of
the voting age and a clear majority of opinion from all
sources considered that
that it should remain at 21 years.
Many people felt that more civic education was needed
before people below that age
age would be ready for the
There was little interest in the age of
vote.
eligibility for
candidature.
Most of those who
commented believed
believed that this too should remain at 21
years.
70.
The
Government
has decided not to change
either the voting age or the age of eligibility for
office. It has, since the 1984 White Paper, stepped up
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