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FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1988

DB

"THAT ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE IN ADVANCE OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE WHITE PAPER ON THE 1987 REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS IN REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, AND BEFORE THE OPENING OF NOMINATIONS FOR THE ELECTIONS, BECAUSE IT WAS NECESSARY ΤΟ GIVE TIME FOR POTENTIAL CANDIDATES WHO MIGHT BE AFFECTED BY THE CHANGES TO CONSIDER WHETHER THEY WISH ΤΟ STAND FOR ELECTION TO A DB AND TO PLAN THEIR ELECTIONEERING ACTIVITIES IF THEY DO SO.

THE

"ANY FURTHER CHANGES ΤΟ THE CROSS-MEMBERSHIP ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN THE URBAN COUNCIL AND THE URBAN DB'S WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN WHITE PAPER, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

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THE BILL ALSO SETS OUT CONSEQUENTIAL DISTRICT BOARDS ORDINANCE.

THE

AMENDMENTS то

THE

URBAN COUNCIL WHO HAS SECURED DB SEAT WHILE RETAINING

IT REQUIRES A MEMBER OF ELECTION TO A DB TO GIVE UP HIS EX-OFFICIO HIS ELECTED DB MEMBERSHIP.

WHO

IS

THE BILL ALSO PROVIDES THAT, WHEN AN EX-OFFICIO DB SEAT

BY AN VACATED

APPOINTED URBAN COUNCIL MEMBER

HAS SECURED ELECTION TO A DB, THAT EX-OFFICIO DR SEAT SHALL BE LEFT UNFILLED.

THE ELECTORAL PROVISIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988 LS SCHEDULED BE INTRODUCED INTO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. ON JANUARY 27.-

TO

THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO COMMENT ON

BILL SHOULD ΤΟ THE OFFICE OF WRITE TO OMELCO AT 8 JACKSON ROAD OR

THE DEPUTY

SECRETARY, CHIEF

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES,

ALBERT LOWER

CENTRAL.

ROAD,

CALL FOR MORE WOMEN CANDIDATES IN DB ELECTIONS

NORTH DISTRICT

OFFICER. MR

MATTHEW CHEUNG, TODAY (FRIDAY) THE COMMUNITY'S CALLED ON FEMALE RESIDENTS WHO ARE KEEN ON PROMOT 1 NG WELL-BEING TO STAND FOR DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS IN MARCH.

HONG KONG FOR

10 HE SAID REGISTERED VOTERS WHO HAD LIVED IN YEARS WERE ELIGIBLE FOR NOMINATION WHICH WOULD LAST UNTIL FEBRUARY 1.

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OFFICE BEARERS LADIES'

HE MADE THE APPEAL AT THE INAUGURAT LON OF THE RXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NEWLY FORMED NORTH DISTRICT ASSOCIATION.

OF THE

WAS

MR CHEUNG SAID IN NORTH DISTRICT THERE WAS A RATHER

LOW LEVEL

OF WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, YET A GOOD BEGINNING, HAD BEEN MADE.

/HE NOTED