WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1988
11
BILLS ON WHITE PAPER PROPOSALS INTRODUCED
* * * *
THREE BILLS SEEKING TO IMPLEMENT PROPOSALS IN
THE 1988
WHITE
GOVERNMENT:
THE
INTO
THE LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL
WAY TODAY
PAPER, "THE DEVELOPMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE
FORWARD", (WEDNESDAY).
WERE
INTRODUCED
COUNCIL THE BILLS ARE THE URBAN (AMENDMENT) COUNCIL REGIONAL (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL 1988.
BILL
(AMENDMENT}
AND 1988
THE
1988,
THE BOARD
BILL DISTRICT
IN MOVING THAT EACH BILL BE GIVEN A SECOND READING, SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID FORD, EXPLAINED THE THREE MAIN WHICH THE BILLS WOULD BRING CHANGES.
APRIL
1,
1989,
THE
THE CHIEF AREAS IN
OF
URBAN THE FROM EACH OF
MEMBERSHIP
HE SAID.
"FIRST, FROM COUNCIL WILL BE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE ONE REPRESENTATIVE THE 10 DISTRICT BOARDS IN THE URBAN COUNCIL AREA,"
"SECONDLY, URBAN COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL CEASE MEMBERS OF URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS."
TO BE EX-OFFICIO
FROM FOR THE
OF THE TWO THIRDLY, SIR DAVID SAID THE TENURE OF THE MEMBERS MUNICIPAL COUNCILS TO BE ELECTED IN MARCH 1989 WOULD BE ADJUSTED THE NORMAL THREE YEARS TO TWO YEARS AND TWO WEEKS TO PREPARE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW SEQUENCE OF ELECTIONS.
"THE INTENTION IS THAT, AFTER 1991, ELECTIONS TO BOARDS, THE TWO MUNICIPAL COUNCILS, AND THE LEGISLATIVE BE HELD IN THAT ORDER WITHIN A PERIOD OF 12 MONTHS,
THE
THE DISTRICT COUNCIL WILL
F
HE SAID.
THE
ELECTION
ΤΟ
OF
"THIS SEQUENCE WILL FACILITATE ELECTIONS OF REPRESENTATIVES
THAT IS OF GOVERNMENT, SUCCESSIVE TIERS
TO THE MUNICIPAL COUNCILS REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE DISTRICT BOARDS AND FROM THE MUNICIPAL COUNCILS TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,"
THE URBAN COUNCIL (AMENDMENT) BILL ALSO PROVIDED FOR OF TECHNICAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS, SIR DAVID SAID.
CORRUPT
AND
ILLEGAL
A NUMBER
SO
PRACTICES ORDINANCE IT AMENDED THE
REPRESENTATIVE THAT THE ORDINANCE WOULD BE APPLIED TO THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO THE TWO MUNICIPAL COUNCILS.
LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL (ELECTOFAL THE URBAN
THE BILL ALSO AMENDED THE PROVISIONS) ORDINANCE TO INCLUDE REPRESENTATIVE MEMBERS OF
IN THE URBAN COUNCIL SPECIAL DISTRICT BOARDS ON THE URBAN COUNCIL CONSTITUENCY FOR THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS.
"
'I SHALL BE SEEKING A FURTHER AMENDMENT AT THE COMMITTEE
TO COVER TWO TECHNICAL POINTS WHICH WERE THE BILL, SIR DAVID CONTINUED.
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