5. The development of a more representative form of
government at the central level also began in the 1970s, with the expansion of the Legislative Council to include
more members who are not officials. But there were no elected members of the Legislative Council when the Joint Declaration was signed: all were appointed. Following public consultation on the basis of a Green Paper published in July 1984, the Hong Kong Government announced in their White Paper of November 1984 that an indirectly elected element would be introduced into the Legislative Council as from October 1985. 12 members of the enlarged Council of 56
were duly elected from 'functional' constituencies based on major professional and occupational groups; 12 others were elected on a geographical basis by an electoral college comprising all members of the Urban and Regional Councils
and District Boards. The other 32 members of the
Legislative Council were either officials (10) or appointed members (22).
6.
They
The 1984 White Paper also considered the question of direct elections to the Legislative Council. The Hong Kong Government noted that although there was strong public
support for the idea of direct elections, there was little
support for such elections in the immediate future.
undertook to hold a review in 1987, before the 1988
elections, to given an opportunity for further consultation about the development of representative government, including, specifically, the introduction of direct
elections.
7。
The review duly took place in 1987. The options were set out in a Green Paper "The 1987 Review of Developments in Representative Government" published in May that year. It covered many aspects of representative government, among them the question of whether, and if so when, there should
be a directly elected element in the Legislative Council. Survey Office was set up to collect and report on public opinion on the Green Paper. It operated outside the
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