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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1990

CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE INDUSTRIES;

THE

ENGINEERING,

WHICH WILL BE SEPARATED

AND

FROM

AN EXISTING

CONSTITUENCY.

IS TO BE

"IN ADDITION, THE EXISTING FINANCE CONSTITUENCY EXPANDED BY THE ADDITION OF BOTH RESTRICTED LICENCE BANKS AND DEPOSIT- TAKING COMPANIES, SIR DAVID SAID.

..

THE CHIEF SECRETARY NOTED THAT INEVITABLY, THERE WOULD BE GROUPS WHICH FELT

SOME THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN REPRESENTATION AND WHO HAD NOT BEEN SO IDENTIFIED THIS TIME.

GIVEN DISTINCT

"FURTHER THOUGHT WILL BE GIVEN TO THEM IN CONSIDERING OUR STEP, IN 1995, WHEN THE NUMBER OF FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES IS TO INCREASED TO 30, OR FULLY ONE HALF OF THIS COUNCIL," HE SAID.

NEXT

BE

THE GENERAL THE FUNCTIONAL ENSURE THAT

"IN THIS CONTEXT, I THINK IT IS WORTHWHILE NOTING DIFFICULTY OF IDENTIFYING THE ELECTORATES FOR CONSTITUENCIES. OUR AIM IN THESE TRANSITION YEARS IS TO

INTERESTS ARE PROPERLY GEOGRAPHICALLY AND BY OCCUPATION," THE CHIEF SECRETARY POINTED OUT.

REPRESENTED,

THE

COMMUNITY'S

HE SAID THAT DEFINITION AND REGISTRATION OF THE ELECTORATE THE FORMER WAS RELATIVELY EASY, FOR THE LATTER LESS SO EVEN FUNCTION ITSELF WAS READILY IDENTIFIABLE.

ARE

BOTH

FOR

WHEN THE

"ALL AND THE

CITING TOURISM AS A USEFUL ILLUSTRATION, SIR DAVID SAID: AGREED ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS SECTOR TO THE ECONOMY DESIRABILITY OF ITS INTERESTS BEING REPRESENTED ON THIS COUNCIL."

"IDENTIFYING AN ELECTORATE WITHOUT DUPLICATION PROVED RATHER MORE DIFFICULT, BUT WE BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE NOW

OF INTEREST AT A SATISFACTORY SOLUTION," HE ADDED.

ARRIVED

SIR DAVID SAID IN 1995, THE KEY FACTOR IN BROADENING THE SYSTEM WOULD BE THE SATISFACTORY IDENTIFICATION ELECTORATE FOR OTHER CONSTITUENCIES, THE CHIEF

OF SECRETARY

AND AN

REFINING UNAMBIGUOUS NOTED.

WE

ΤΟ

OF

WILL BE LOOKING, FOR EXAMPLE, TO DEFINE A CONSTITUENCY REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF THE RETAIL TRADE. WE HOPE THAT MEMBERS THIS AND OTHER POTENTIAL GROUPS WILL ORGANISE THEMSELVES IN SUCH A WAY AS TO FACILITATE DEFINITION OF THAT CONSTITUENCY, SIR DAVID SAID.

FROM OCTOBER 1991 THE ONLY OFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL

LEGISLATIVE WILL BE THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FINANCIAL SECRETARY. AND THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE PROPOSING ARRANGEMENTS AND THE WHICH WILL ALLOW BRANCH SECRETARIES TO ATTEND BEFORE INVITATION BUT WITHOUT THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

THE COUNCIL

BY

/"THIS WILL