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GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH HKG
852 840 1976
P.09
Annex I: Method for the Selection of the Chief Executive of
the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
1. The Chief Executive shall be elected in accordance with this Law by a broadly representative Election Committee and appointed by the Central People's Government.
The Election Committee shall be composed of 800 members from the following sectors:
2.
Industrial, commercial and financial sectors
200
The professions
200
Labour, social services, religious
communities and other sectors
200
The
Legislative Councillors, representatives of
district organizations, Hong Kong deputies to the National People's Congress, representatives of Hong Kong members of the National Committee
of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
200
Election Committee shall serve five years in each term of its office.
3. The delimitation of the various sectors and the number of Election Committee members returned by individual organizations in each sector shall be prescribed in the electoral
law enacted by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in accordance with democratic and open principles.
4
Corporate bodies in various sectors shall, in accordance with the number of seats allocated and the election method as prescribed by
by the electoral law, elect on their own members of the Election Committee.
Members of the Election individual capacities.
Committee shall vote in their
4. Candidates for the office of Chief Executive may be nominated jointly by no less than 100 members of the Election Committee. Each member may nominate only one candidate.
5. The Election Committee shall, in accordance with the list of nominations, elect the Chief Executive designate by secret ballot on a one-person-one-vote basis. The specific election method shall be prescribed by the electoral law.