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Tombership
aeretore
. Hong Kong.
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drawn.
which
the
sduction
such
legislature
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counter to well-established
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practice
ons would limit the range of talents
membersnip
the legislature can be
They
could
full
also
continuity
create a serious problem for the
of membership of the legislature
between 1995 and 1997.
is also not clear how the proposed 15 percent
zule 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
For example, if the number of
successful candidates who were foreign nationals
or had a right of abode in foreign countries
the proposed ceiling, it would be
and inflexible.
exceeded
difficult
to decide which of the candidates should
be asked to step down in order to meet the 15
percent rule and how the vacancies thus created
should be filled.
i.
The
clarification
British
Government would be grateful for as to whether permanent residents who are not