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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1988

COMPOSITION

OF THE

SIR DAVID SAID THAT FURTHER CHANGE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WOULD OF COURSE BE NECESSARY IN THE LONGER TERM.

ELECTED. AND WOULD BE OF THE

THE LEGISLATURE OF THE FUTURE SAR WOULD BE FULLY

THE COMPOSITION WHEN POST-1997 CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS WERE CLEARER, IT NECESSARY TO TAKE SYSTEMATIC STEPS TO BRING COUNCIL INTO LINE WITH THAT PROVIDED FOR IN THE BASIC LAW.

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THE FUNCTIONAL THAT IN DECIDING

SYSTEM SIR DAVID SAID

THAT PUBLIC AND 1985 IN CONSTITUENCY SYSTEM IN 1988, THE GOVERNMENT HAD NOTED THAT THE

INTRODUCTION

IT SINCE ITS

FOR DEVELOPING SUPPORT WIDE HAD WORKED WELL RESPONSE TO THE GREEN PAPER SHOWED FURTHER.

THE WHITE PAPER PROPOSED NO FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE TO THE ROLE COMPOSITION OF THE DISTRICT BOARDS.

AND

STR DAVID SAID THE BOARDS HAD PROVED THEMSELVES AS

TO SEE THEIR PART OF THE SYSTEM OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, WIDELY

WOULD CLEARLY WHO THE PUBLIC STRENGTHENED.

LIKE

A VALABLE SUPPORTED ADVISORY

BY ROLE

A STRONG

FEELING CURRENT

THAT THE URBAN COUNCIL

HE NOTED THAT THERE WAS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS AND THE SHOULD BE IMPROVED.

BEST BE ACHIEVED

MEMBER ON PRESENT URBAN

"THE GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED THAT THIS COULD

OF THE BY ENABLING EACH OF THE URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS TO ELECT ONE

1989, WHEN THE TENURE TO THE URBAN COUNCIL IN COUNCIL EXPIRES," HE SAID.

TIME,

TO CEASE WILL

RE

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URBAN COUNCILLORS "AT THE SAME EX-OFFIC10 MEMBERS OF THE URBAN DISTICT BOARDS.

IN TAKING THIS DECISION, THE GOVERNMENT HAD TAKEN VERY NOTE OF THE VIEWS OF URBAN COUNCILLORS.

CAREFUL

THE LINK AND THAT IT THREE LINKS BETWEEN THE

IT BELIEVED THAT THIS WAS THE BEST WAY TO STRENGTHEN BETWEEN THE URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS AND THE URBAN COUNCIL WOULD IN TURN STRENGTHEN AND RATIONALISE THE TIERS OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.

A HAD FOLLOWED

SYSTEMS AND BOTH CONFIDENCE

THE GOVERNMENT THAT OUT SIR DAVID POINTED

OF REPRESENTATIVE CAUTIOUS APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT HAD ALSO BEEN VERY CONSCIOUS OF THE NEED TO MAINTAIN LOCALLY AND OVERSEAS.

MAINTENANCE THAT

WOULD BE

OF THAT CONFIDENCE HE SAID PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT IN THE CRUCIAL YEARS LEADING UP TO 1997.

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IS

NOT ONLY WAY WHICH "ONE OF THE WAYS IN WHICH CONFIDENCE WILL BE MAINTAINED ENSURE THAT THE SYSTEM CONTINUES TO EVOLVE IN A

ARE COMPATIBLE MEETS THE WISHES AND ASPIRATIONS OF THE HONG KONG PEOPLE, AND THAT VITALLY IMPORTANT, BUT ALSO IN WAYS ACHIEVEMENT OF SMOOTH TRANSITION,

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WHICH HE SAID.

WITH

THE

/SIR DAVID