WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1988
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CRITICS TAKING 1SSUE WITH WRONG MATTER
BILL
BILL. 1988 WERE AND CONTAINED, INAPPROPRIATE TIME,
CRITICS OF THE ELECTORAL PROVISIONS (AMENDMENT)
THE
ACTUALLY THAN IT READING MUCH MORE INTO THEREBY TAKING ISSUE WITH THE WRONG MATTER AT AN THE HON RITA FAN SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
MAIN EFFECT AN ELECTED SEAT ON A
SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE BILL, MRS FAN SAID ITS WAS TO ALLOW AN URBAN COUNCIL MEMBER TO HOLD DISTRICT BOARD IN THE URBAN COUNCIL AREA.
IN THE FORTHCOMING DISTRICT URBAN COUNCILLORS WHO WON SEATS
YEARS BOARD ELECTIONS WOULD HOLD THEIR DISTRICT BOARD SEATS FOR THREE
THEIR POSITION AS URBAN COUNCIL IN THEIR OWN RIGHT, REGARDLESS OF MEMBERS.
WHO WAS ELECTED ΤΟ THE VICE VERSA, A DISTRICT BOARD MEMBER
HAVE ΤΟ GIVE URBAN COUNCIL IN THE URBAN COUNCIL ELECTIONS WOULD NOT UP HIS SEAT IN THE DISTRICT BOARD.
MRS FAN SAID THIS ARRANGEMENT SEEMED FAIR.
RESULT "IF A PERSON STANDS FOR TWO SEPARATE ELECTIONS AND AS A
GOVERNMENT, AND HE IS WIN TWO SEATS IN TWO DIFFERENT TIERS OF THE
THEN THERE DOES CAPABLE OF FULFILLING THE OBLIGATIONS OF BOTH ROLES,
ONE OF NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY VALID REASON TO FORCE HIM TO RESIGN FROM
ANOTHER SEAT THROUGH PUT THE SEATS AND THEN PROCEDURE, BUT IN A DIFFERENT CAPACITY AS AN EX-OFFICIO SAID.
HIM
BACK
INTO
THAT
SHE ADDED THAT THE BILL SOUGHT TO REMOVE WAS NOT REALLY NECESSARY.
MEMBER, SHE
+
A RESTRICTIONS WHICH
URBAN COUNCIL MRS FAN ALSO SAID THAT REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE
THE GOVERNMENT HAD INTRODUCED TO SEVER THE URBAN COUNCIL'S
OPPOSED THIS BILL ON THE GROUND THAT THE MEASURE ONLY BECAUSE IT INTENDED EX-OFFICIO LINK WITH THE DISTRICT BOARDS.
HAS SUCH AN "WHILE IT IS TRUE TO SAY THAT THE ADMINISTRATION
THIS INTENTION, IT IS CERTAINLY NOT CORRECT TO ASSUME THAT SUPPORT OF
RUBBER IMPLIES BILL BY
AUTOMATICALLY MEMBERS OF
COUNCIL THIS
NOR DOES IT NECESSARILY STAMPING OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S PROPOSALS,
OF THE
LINK, EX-OFFICIO COMMIT ANY MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THE REMOVAL SHE SAID.
HAVE TO
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THE EX-OFFICIO LINK,
OR
ANY
SHE ADDED THAT THE QUESTION OF
BE ADDRESSED BY FURTHER LEGISLATIVE FORM OF LINK, WOULD
RESULTS PROPOSALS, WHICH COULD ONLY BE FORMULATED IN THE LIGHT OF THE OF DISCUSSION ON THE WHITE PAPER.
/SHE NOTED
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