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According to chapter 10947) of the Heung Yee Kuk Ordinance, the representativeness and the ambit of the Heung Yee

Kuk go beyond the limits of professions and occupations.

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other organisation, The Heung Yee Kuk, in effect,

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paragraph 89 of the 1987 Green Paper on political Review.

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With the development of representative

government, many advisory roles of the different sectors

and organisations have changed and they directly participate.

in decision-making and in reflecting the interests

of the groups that they represent. Therefore, I think

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constituencies perfectly justified.

The Heung Yee Kuk and myself have

always actively supported the spirit of representative

government. Now that the White Paper has failed to include the Heung Yee Kuk into the functional constituencies,

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understandable. The Heung Yee Kuk, in fighting to

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be included in the functional constituencies, is not trying to enhance individual political interests, and 25 neither is it trying to gain privileges. It is merely

requesting equal political rights. The Heung Yee

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Kuk hopes that, just like other functional constituencies, 28 the interests of the groups can be directly represented

so that it can perform the unique social function of

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the Heung Yee Kuk.

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the rictusion of the Kank

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functional constituen

Not only would be to the advantage

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of indigenous villagers, it would also benefit the

omic and social development of Hong Kong as a whole,

economic

so that the Legislative Council can be more representative

and its deliberations more comprehensive.

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