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However, the Ad Hoc group accepted that this Bill was a self-contained measure to remove a restriction in the existing law which would not prefjudge the contents of the White Paper in any material way.
Indeed, the Bill has not sought directly to implement the proposal to discontinue Urban Councillors' ex-officio membership of the urban District Boards. Nor has it addressed
itself to the question as to what other links there will be after
withdrawal of this link. That would need to be dealt with by legislation some time in the future.
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Passage of this Bill will not commit members to сар.
supporting whatever proposals contained in the White Paper be regarding any future links between the Urban Council and pistrict le Boards.
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During deliberation of this Bill, the Ad Hoc group noted
that two legal points in the existing law required clarification. The first point raised the question of whether a District Board member would need. to resign immediately upon being declared
elected to another District Board even though his tenure of office
has not yet expired. Immediate resignation would create a time gap in which he could not hold any District Board membership before he took up the seat in another pistrict Board.
The second point suggested that as the present Bill was
drafted, there seemed to be no provision requiring an Urban le Councillor to give up his Council seat if he was elected to a le District Board in the Regional Council area, or a Regional Council
member to resign from the Council if he was elected to an urban
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I am pleased to note that the Administration proposes to
make some committee stage amendments to cover these two points.
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