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(c) The Presidency of the Legislative Council
DSR 11C (Revised 5/87)
The Governor will continue to be the president of the
Legislative Council for the immediate future.
(d) Practical aspects of elections
PRIVACY MARKING
(i)
The sequence of elections will be changed so that
elections to the District Boards, the Municipal Councils
and the Legislative Council are held in that order.
In Confidence
(ii) The age of entitlement to vote and of eligibility
for office will remain at 21.
(iii) A preferential elimination system of voting (as
described in the Green Paper) will be adopted in the 1988
Legislative Council elections.
(iv) The limits on election expenses will be reviewed
regularly.
These relatively minor changes fully reflect the
broad consensus of opinion which has emerged on these
matters in the course of last year's public consultation
exercise in Hong Kong. They are in line with our own
strategy for the steady and gradual development of
representative government in Hong Kong. The Foreign
Secretary believes that it is clearly right that the Honge
Kong Government should proceed in this way.