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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1987

THE COMPOSITION

COLLEGES,

OF THE FUNCTIONAL TOOK UP

A

HE THEN PROPOSED A CHANGE IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WHEREIN THE ELECTORAL CONSTITUENCIES, DIRECT ELECTIONS, QUARTER OF THE SEATS.

AND

ALL APPOINTMENTS

SERIOUS CONSIDERATION IN THE REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS, HE SAID

MADE BY THE HEUNG YEE KUK TO BE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE DEMAND INCLUDED IN THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES.

CHANGE, HE TIME

GRADUAL APPROACH TO POLITICAL IN LINE WITH HIS BELIEVED THAT THE THREE-TIER SYSTEM SHOULD BE MAINTAINED FOR THE

A CASE COULD BE MADE FOR THE BEING, EVEN THOUGH HE AGREED THAT

THE DISTRICT LEVEL WOULD DEVELOPMENT OF A TWO-TIER SYSTEM IN WHICH ALSO BE VESTED WITH SOME EXECUTIVE POWER.

MR LAI SAID CONSIDERATION COLLEGES ELECTORAL

TO ALLOCATION GEOGRAPHICAL AREA.

SHOULD ALSO THAT COMPRISED

BE GIVEN

MORE

TO THAN

SEAT

ONE

HE SAID: "FOR INSTANCE, MY CONSTITUENCY, NEW TERRITORIES SOUTH, TSUEN COMPRISES OF HEAVY INDUSTRIAL AREAS LIKE KWAI CHUNG, TSING YI,

AND THE ISLANDS. TO ENSURE THAT WAN, AND RURAL AREAS IN SAI KUNG

PERHAPS A REALLOCATION OR THEIR INTERESTS WILL BE FULLY REFLECTED, EXPANSION OF SEATS 19 WARRANTED.

MR LAI SAID THE

NOT

PRESENT

BE THE

THE

OF OF OFFICE

FOR COUNCILLORS,

THREE-YEAR TERM LEGISLATURE MIGHT

BEST ARRANGEMENT ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PROPORTION OF ELECTED MEMBERS WAS THOUGHT IT SHOULD BE LENGTHENED TO FOUR YEARS.

INCREASING. HE

AND EFFORTS NEEDED TO HE SAID: "THE TIME

RUN AN ELECTION CAMPAIGN MAY DISTRACT MEMBERS FROM THE COURSE OF LEGCO BUSINESS.

"EXTENDING THE TERM TO FOUR YEARS

WILL GIVE ELECTED MEMBERS

MORE TIME TO CONCENTRATE ON THE WORK OF THE OFFICE."

TERMS FROM 1988, THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THIS MAY HELP USHER IN A NEW

"MOREOVER, IF WE DECIDE TO START FOUR YEARS WE WOULD NOT HAVE AN ELECTION YEAR IN 1997 WHEN HONG KONG WILL BE RETURNED TO CHINA. ADMINISTRATION WITH THE MINIMUM DISRUPTION,

HE ADDED.

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