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G.r. 316
3
Composition
5.
Proposal : the future
committees should adopt the
95' EC's composition of the first three sectors, ie, the same delineation of the sub-sectors and their constituents, and each sub-sector returning a broadly equal number of
members to the committee.
6.
Generally,
our
30 FCs
are
in
line
with
the
sub-sectors defined in the BL for the first three sectors of the future SC and the post-97 ECS. Therefore, the above proposal
not cause any difficulties with the BL. However, it might be argued that our FCS fail to meet the
should
and
"religious"
for "religious"
BL
requirements
for
"grass-roots"
representation
in
the
SC, and
representation
in the
post-97
ECS.
With regard to the
"religious" element, we have repeatedly asked the Chinese how they envisage including it in the 95' EC.
Depending on
Chinese response to our questions, if any, one possibility we had in mind was to include religious groupings in the
and Leisure Industries" "Service proposed
FC,
for the
(This is of
of election of members to the 95' EC. purpose course, a contentious idea!) As for the requirement for "grass-roots" representation, it can be argued that this is met by our proposed FCS
Resident organisations and
various worker groupings.
1.
for
We have not proposed that the the fourth sector and
number of members of the 95' EC should serve as
the
subsequent committees.
that specifies
a model for
on the number of members, since
the BL
the SC shall be composed of 400 members, and the post-97 ECS 800 members, it is obviously possible for all the committees to be of the same size, and it has never been our intention for the 95' EC to be
used as a model in this regard.
not
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