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(B)
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Boards.
The introduction of such restrictions on
membership of the legislature after 1997 would run counter to well-established practice
therefore
in Hong Kong.
Such
restrictions would limit the range of talents
from which membership of the legislature can be
drawn.
(C)
They could also
(D)
create a serious problem for the
full continuity of membership of the legislature
between 1995 and 1997.
It is also not clear how the proposed 15 percent
rule would be implemented. The electoral law of
the SAR would need to prescribe the procedures in detail. The British Government believes that such legal stipulations would inevitably be complicated inflexible. For example, if the number of
successful candidates who were foreign nationals had a right of abode in foreign countries exceeded the proposed ceiling. it
and
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be asked to step down in order to meet the 15
percent rule and how the vacancies thus created should be filled.
4.
The
clarification
British Government would be grateful for as to whether permanent residents who are not