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Annex E
An Election Committee based on
Occupational Groups and District Board Membership
Background
In the Governor's Address to Legco (para. 146), we said that :
2.
the
and
(a) the Election Committee (EC) should be genuinely
representative of the community;
(b) the electors on the Committee should themselves
be elected; and
(c) the simplest and most effective formula to achieve this is to draw all or most of the Committee's members from the District Boards.
In the course of the diplomatic exchanges between British and Chinese Governments in early 1990, we proposed the Chinese Government agreed to 5 principles for the EC. These 5 principles are set out in full in the Appendix to this note. The most directly relevant ones are
3.
(a)
the EC should be as representative as possible;
(b) the composition of the EC should as far as possible avoid direct duplication with membership of other constituencies of Legco.
the
Also, in the course of the 1990 diplomatic exchanges, we have signified to the Chinese Government that we agreed in principle to the composition and ratio of the EC * as specified in paragraph 2 of Annex I to the Basic Law. That paragraph specifies that the composition of the 1999 EC as follows :
(a)
Industrial, commercial and financial sectors
(b)
The professions
(c)
Labour, social services,· religious and other sectors
(d). Members of the Legislative
Council, representatives of district-based organizations, Hong Kong deputies to the NPC, and representatives of Hong Kong members of the National Committee of the CPPCC
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