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''MEDICAL AND HEALTH CARE'' CONSTITUENCY) WHICH WILL HAVE TWO DIVISIONS: ONE CONSISTING OF DOCTORS AND DENTISTS AND THE OTHER OF NURSES, MIDWIVES, PHARMACISTS AND FIVE PARAMEDICAL PROFESSIONS. EACH DIVISION WILL ELECT ONE MEMBER TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. DETAILS OF HOW THESE TWO NEW CONSTITUENCIES WILL BE ORGANIZED ARE GIVEN AT APPENDIX B.
44. FOR 1991, THE EFFECT OF THE DECISIONS ANNOUNCED IN THIS WHITE PAPER WILL BE:
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(A) TO INTRODUCE TEN MEMBERS DIRECTLY ELECTED FROM GEOGRA- PHICAL CONSTITUENCIES:
(B) TO ABOLISH THE PRESENT GEOGRAPHICALLY-BASED ELECTORAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF ELECTIONS, BUT RETAIN TWO SPECIAL CONSTIT- UENCIES FOR THE URBAN AND REGIONAL COUNCIL EACH TO ELECT ONE MEMBER TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
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