4.

The quotation

2

092 2 04-

from

Sir Edward

Youde

(towards the bottom of the page) is out of

It is also incomplete. His next

context.

sentence was: "At that time

too

it would be

possible

to

to

direct

elections

to

consider whether there was a wish

based on

introduce

geographical constituencies or whether to continue

develop further the system of indirect

elections". The quotation was drawn from Sir

Edward Youde's address to the Legislative Council

on 18 July 1984 when he was introducing the 1984

Green Paper. That paper proposed certain changes

to the composition

the Legislative Council

in 1985 and 1988, and a

and a review in 1989. In the

event, following public consultation, the changes

envisaged for 1985 and 1988 were both implemented

in 1985 and the review was brought forward to

1987.

of

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