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CONST AFFAIRS BRANCH
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2.04.05
1995.
we propose that the constituencies for the 1995
Municipal Council elections should be drawn on a ratio of
100,000 people per seat. On this basis, the Urban Council
seats;
would have 32
9 District
membership
directly-elected
representatives,
Board
together with the
it would have a total
of 41. As for the Regional Council, it would on
the same basis have 27
with the 9 District
ex-officio members,
directly-elected seats; together
Board representatives and the 3
who are the Chairman and Vice-chairmen
of the Heung Yee Kuk, the Regional Council would have a
total of 39 members.
7.
Fifthly, our law at present prohibits a person who
is a member of any parliament, assembly or council, whether
central or local, of any place outside - Horg Kona
(including China) from nomination as a candidate for, anu
from
holding office in the Legislative Council, the
Municipal Councils and the District Boards. The Select
Committee on Legislative Council Elections recommended in
its report in July 1992 that the Administration should
consider lifting this restriction in respect of deputies of
China's People's Congresses. In the course of the
Sino-British talks on the 1994-95 electoral arrangements,
the Chinese side have also proposed that this restriction
should be removed.
circumstances
Taking into account the special
of Hong Kong's
transition to the status of