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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1988

"THE PROPER PROCEDURE IS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION TO PUBLISH COMPLETE PACKAGE OF WHITE PAPER ON POLITICAL REFORM IN WHICH A

THEIR RELATIONS FUTURE OF URBAN COUNCIL, URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS, LINKS ARE DESCRIBED IN FULL,

"

HE SAID.

THE

THE

AND

"WHEN THE CONTENTS ARE DEBATED AND FINALLY AGREED IN PRINCIPLE,

VARIOUS RELATED INCLUDING A

IMPLEMENTATION, FOR TIMETABLE

IN THIS COUNCIL ΚΙΤΗ FULL. LEGISLATION CAN BE INTRODUCED BY STAGES UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPLETE PACKAGE.

IS

FAR

THAN PIECEMEAL MORE ACCEPTABLE KNOWING THE CONTENT OF FUTURE

"SUCH AN APPROACH INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION WITHOUT RELATED LEGISLATION."

THAT SAYING

THOSE WHO MARRY IN AS

LEGISLATORS

HE ADDED: "THERE IS AN OLD HASTE REPENT AT LEISURE, AND THIS IS A GOOD MOTTO FOR WELL."

MET HAD

REPRESENTATIVES

THE OF *THE URBAN AREA ΤΟ

MR HU SAID THE AD HOC GROUP URBAN COUNCIL AND CHAIRMEN OF DISTRICT BOARDS IN HEAR THEIR VIEWS ON THE CHANGES PROPOSED IN THE BILL..

THE

DISTRICT

AND OPPOSED BY THE URBAN BOARDS

MORE WAS

IN GENERAL, THE BILL WAS RESENTED

THE WHILE

COUNCIL, FAVOURABLE, HE NOTED.

RESPONSE

FROM

HOWEVER, THE

AD

HOC

ACCEPTED GROUP

THAT THE

BILL WAS A EXISTING LAW THE WHITE PAPER IN ANY

SELF-CONTAINED MEASURE IN REMOVING A RESTRICTION IN THE

OF CONTENT WHICH WOULD NOT PREJUDICE THE

MATERIAL WAY.

FURTHERMORE,

NOT

COMMIT THE WHITE

COUNCIL

AND

HE SAID PASSAGE OF

THE

WOLFLD BILL

ANY FUTURE

LINKS

BETWEEN

THE

URBAN

MEMBERS TO SUPPORTING WHATEVER PROPOSALS WERE CONTAINED IN PAPER REGARDING DISTRICT BOARS.

THE AD WHICH WOULD PROPOSE

LAW

MR HU POINTED OUT THAT DURING DELIBERATION OF THE BILL,

LEGAL POINTS IN THE EXISTING TWO HOC GROUP HAD NOTED REQUIRED CLARIFICATION; AND HE SAID THE ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE STAGE AMENDMENTS TO COVER THESE POINTS.

"THE FIRST POINT RAISED THE

BOARD MEMBER WOULD NEED TO

OF WHETHER A QUESTION

DISTRICT IMMEDIATELY RESIGN

UPON BEING DECLARED HIS TENURE OF OFFICE ELECTED TO ANOTHER DISTRICT BOARD EVEN THOUGH

HOLDING ANY HAD NOT YET FXPIRED AS IT WOULD CREATE A TIME GAP OF NOT

THE MEMBERSHIP IN DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERSHIP BEFORE HE COULD PICK UP ANOTHER DISTRICT BOARD, HE SAID.

"

"THE SECOND POINT SUGGESTED THAT

AS PROVISION

THE PRESENT

WAS BILL AN URBAN DISTRICT

THERE

REQUIRING ΤΟ SEEMED

NO DRAFTED,

BE COUNCILLOR TO RESIGN HIS COUNCIL SEAT IF HE WAS ELECTED TO A

COUNCIL MEMBER TO BOARD IN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL AREA, OR A REGIONAL RESIGN HIS COUNCIL SEAT IF HE WAS ELECTED TO AN URBAN DISTRICT BOARD."

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