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MY FOURTH IPT:
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT: WHITE PAPER : AMENDMENTS
(CHAPTER IV AND V)
CHAPTER IV THE DISTRICT BOARDS AND THE MUNICIPAL COUNCILS:
(A) AMEND CHAPTER NUMBER TO ''CHAPTER V'
(B)
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RENUMBER PARAS 31 TO 44 AS PARAS 45 TO 58. REFERENCES IN (C)
TO (H) BELOW WILL BE TO THE NEW PARA NUMBERS.
(C)
PARA 50, FIRST SENTENCE: FOR ''CHANGE' SIGNIFICANTLY''.
READ ''BE CHANGED
DELETE THE SEMI-COLON
TAKE ACCOUNT OF''
(D) PARA 50, SECOND SENTENCE: AFTER 2:
AND THE WORDS ''IT WILL CONTINUE AND ''SUBSTITUTE THEREFORE THE FOLLOWING: '' BUT ACCOUNT WILL
BE TAKEN OF''.
(E)
PARA 52: DELETE FINAL SENTENCE.
(F)
(G)
(H)
PARA 53. ADD A NEW FINAL SENTENCE AS FOLLOWS: ''SUCH A LINK WOULD THEN OBVIATE THE NEED FOR MEMBERS OF THE URBAN COUNCIL TO SIT ON URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS.''.
PARA 54: FOR ''THERE IS A STRONG CASE FOR READ 'SUCH A DEVELOPMENT WOULD HAVE THE ADDED MERIT OF'', AND AFTER ''IN TURN'' INSERT 'BEING'',
PARA 55, SECOND SENTENCE: FOR ''THEN'' READ ''AT THE SAME
TIME''.
2.
CHAPTER V
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THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL:
(A)
AMEND CHAPTER NUMBER TO ''CHAPTER IV''.
(B) RENUMBER PARAS 45 TO 58 AS PARAS 31 TO 44. REFERENCES IN (C)
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