TNAG-0353-FCO40-389-Reform-of-local-government-in-Hong-Kong-1972 — Page 102

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20th December, 1971

MEMORANDUM TO THE HON. D.R.W. ALEXANDER, CHAIRMAN, URBAN COUNCIL

At the meeting of the Local Administration Select Committee held

on 10th December 1971 to discuss the Urban Council White Paper, it

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was not possible for the Committee/come to any agrement on the -

composition of members for the new Council.

The 10 elected members have had a further exchange of views on this

subject, and are now unanimously agreed as follows:

1.

2.

3.

In accordance with Phase I of the Urban Council 1969 Revised Report,

the number of appointed members should remain at 10, and not be

increased, as the Urban Council must move in the direction of

more fully elected representation.

An increase in elected members from 10 to 12 is accepted in

order to provide a clear majority of elected members over the

number of appointed members;' this should extablish the Urban

Council as a more coherent body, whose elected element as a

whole would have to accept greater responsibility to the franchise

for the decisions and actions of the Council.

On the basis of (1) and (2) above, the Chairman of the Urban Council

may be retinated from within or outside the Council, as proposed

in para. 11 of the White Paper.

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shonda be offeinted

to exsumine enlarging the franchise.

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