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1988
Legislative Council
elections
for both
the
functional constituencies and the electoral college.
Details of the system are at Appendix C.
Other Electoral Arrangements
73.
The Green Paper mentioned the Government's
intention
to
increase election
introduce
controls tighter
on matters
deposits and
such
to
as
name-dropping, the filing of returns for election
expenses and
the supply to
candidates of information
about registered voters. Legislation on these points
was enacted in December 1987.
74.
The Green Paper invited views on the limits on
election expenses, in particular that for candidates in
Most comment on this was Municipal Council elections.
Council elections.
The
Government has
in favour of retaining the present limit of $35,000 for
Municipal
decided that all limits on election expenses should be
reviewed regularly, both immediately after each set of
next set of elections and again six months before the
elections, in order to ensure that they keep up with
changing
circumstances
and with inflation.
Accordingly, the limits for District Board elections
were
reviewed
recently and
those for the
next
Legislative Council and Municipal Council elections
will be reviewed in March 1988 and September 1988
respectively.
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