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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1988

IMPLEMENTATION OF BILL SHOULD BE DEFERRED

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE

PROVISIONS ELECTORAL

(AMENDMENT) BILL ABLE TO 1988 SHOULD BE DEFERRED SO THAT URBAN COUNCILLORS WOULD BE

OF URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS RETAIN THEIR EX-OFFICIO MEMBERSHIP 1991, THE HON DESMOND LEE SUGGESTED IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (WEDNESDAY).

UNTIL

TODAY

A RIGHT THING WHICH IS DONE MANNER", MR LEE ABSTAINED FROM

SAYING THAT THE BILL WAS AT BEST AT THE WRONG TIME AND IN THE WRONG VOTING ON IT.

TIERS OF REPRESENTATIVE MR LEE SAID MEMBERS OF ALL THE THREE GOVERNMENT HAD FOUND THEMSELVES UNFAIRLY TREATED BY THE BILL.

FOR

A

SEVERAL

THIS WAS BECAUSE MEMBERS OF THE URBAN COUNCIL WERE RUNNING DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS AT LESS THAN THREE WEEKS' NOTICE AND DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS AND CANDIDATES WERE SUDDENLY CONFRONTED WITH FEW "SUPERIOR" OPPONENTS.

"RELATIONSHIPS

HAVE

WORSENED

BETWEEN

MEMBERS

OF

DISTRICT OF THEM ARE NOW RUNNING

BOARDS AND THE URBAN COUNCIL BECAUSE SOME AGAINST ONE ANOTHER, MR LEE NOTED.

"

PRESENTED WITH

BY THE WHITE PAPER, CONTENTS AND RELATED

HE FURTHER POINTED OUT THAT LEGCO MEMBERS WERE A BILL WHICH PUT INTO EFFECT A CHANGE PROPOSED WITHOUT BEING INFORMED OF THE REMAINDER OF THE CHANGES.

IN WHICH

NEW

MANNER,

A FULL SYSTEM, "REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IS CHANGES MUST BE CONSIDERED ALTOGETHER AND NOT IN A PIECEMEAL HE SAID.

FOR

RELATED

SINGLE CHANGE IN CROSS MEMBERSHIP "AS THIS BILL PROPOSES A BETWEEN DISTRICT BOARDS AND THE URBAN COUNCIL, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE ME TO JUDGE WHETHER OR NOT IT IS RIGHT WITHOUT KNOWING OTHER DEVELOPMENTS."

MR LEE REFERRED TO THE PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS IN REPORT, AND "PIKCEMEAL CHANGES" WHICH WERE PROPOSED BY THIS THE CORRUPT AND ILLEGAL PRACTICES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1987.

"PEOPLE WILL BE LED TO BELIEVE THAT

ARE BEING INTRODUCED ATTENTION FROM THE LACK OF LEVEL," HE SAID.

AT

DISTRICT

AND

SUBSTANTIAL

THE SURVEY BILL AND

WINDOW DRESSING MEASURES MUNICIPAL LEVELS

DIVERT DEVELOPMENT AT THE CENTRAL

то

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