(iv)
(v)
(vi)
(vii)
towards fully elected status.
To give the District Boards responsibility for local public works projects and other local activities; and to increase their funding.
The essential nature of DBs will remain the same i.e. not organs of political power. Not incompatible with the provision for District
Organisations in the BL. The list of activities
in Article 97 of the Basic Law for district organisations clearly illustrative ("providing services in such fields as ...").
To establish an independent Boundary and Election
Commission. The BL is silent on this subject.
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For the Election Committee to have all or most of
its members drawn from the District Boards.
The Basic Law Prescribes the membership of the Election Committee for the Second SAR LegCo, but
not that for the first SAR LegCo. It makes clear
that the first SAR Legco Election Committee is
not that in Annex I of the Basic Law.
The appointment of Members of District Boards to
the Election Committee cannot be incompatible with BL 97 ("District Organisations which are not
organs of political power") since the BL itself
(Annex I paragraph 2) requires representatives of district based organisations to be members of the
post 1997 Election Committee.
A single seat single vote (SSSV) system which is perfectly sensible and manageable.
The BL is silent on the number or size of
electoral constituencies.