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representative
to one
and of the Municipal Councils,
the Municipal Councils will each elect a Member to the
Legislative Council. This system would clearly work
best if elections to the successive tiers of government
were to follow in sequence and if the terms of office
at all three levels were of equal length.
66.
The Government has therefore decided:
(a)
that elections
to
the District Boards,
the
Municipal Councils and the
Legislative Council should be held in
that order;
(b) that all three sets
sets of elections should
be held
within the space of twelve
months;
and
(c) that the terms of office of different
groups of Legislative Councillors should
not be staggered.
67.
The terms of office of Elected Members of the
Legislative Council will continue to be three years for
the time being. The latest draft of the Basic Law
envisages a four-year term for
for the legislature of the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
If the Basic
Law does provide for this, the question of introducing
such a change before 1997 will then be examined.
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