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Repeal and
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ELECTORAL PROVISIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988
Section 22 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced
replacement of the following-
section 22.
Consequential amendment. (Cap. 366.)
"Effect of election to
second District Board.
22. Any person who, being a member of a District Board, is elected as a member of another District Board shall forthwith be deemed to have resigned his membership of the first-mentioned District Board.".
4. Section 6 of the District Boards Ordinance is amended by inserting after subsection (3) the following-
"(4) If a person is a member by virtue of subsection (1)(e) and is subsequently declared elected as a member of any District Board he shall forthwith be deemed to have resigned the membership of the District Board held by virtue of subsection (1)(e).
(5) If an appointed member of the Urban Council who is a member by virtue of subsection (1)(e)(ii) is elected to a District Board, the Urban Council shall not nominate another appointed member to replace that member so long as he remains an appointed member of the Urban Council.".
Explanatory Memorandum
The purpose of this Bill is to remove restrictions on both elected and appointed Urban Council members from seeking election as members of District Boards in the Urban Council area.
2. Clause 2 restates the present position in the Regional Council area and extends the qualification of Urban Council members so that they may seek election to a District Board in the Urban Council area.
3. Clause 3 repeals the deemed resignation of District Board members who are elected to the Urban Council and vice versa.
4. The consequential amendment in clause 4 to section 6 of the District Boards Ordinance (Cap. 366) sets out the position of a former ex officio member of a District Board who is elected.
5. The Bill has no Public Service staffing or public expenditure implications.
1988年選舉規定(修訂)條例草案
摘要說明
本條例草案旨在撤銷對民選及委任市政局議員參加市政局轄區區議會選 舉時所受限制。.
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草案第2條重申與區域市政局轄區選舉有關的現行辦法,並且將市政局 議員的資格擴大,以便他們可以參加市政局轄區內一區議會的選舉。
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草案第3條規定:關於「區議會議員如當選為市政局議員即予視為已辭 去其區議會議員職務論,而反之亦然」的規定,現予廢止。
4. 草案第4條對區議會條例(香港法例第366章)第6條作相應修訂,從而 就一區議會的前任當然議員獲選為區議員後的安排,作出規定。
5. 本草案對於政府開支和人手需求都没有影響。