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(a)
(b)
(c)
To keep pace with the natural development of Hong Kong society.
If the link of authority with the UK is to be severed to provide Hong Kong with as strong and stable indigenous source of political authority as possible.
To ensure that any new system was in place before that link of authority was severed.
POSSIBLE COURSES OF ACTION
6.
There are two possible courses of action, some features of which would be interchangeable. One such approach would be to concentrate on indirect elections: Another would be to move more quickly to direct elections for central government institutions, viz.
(a)
Progressive development, building on
existing institutions, that is to say:-
(i) The election of the unofficial
membership of the Legislative Council in part through elections. from an electoral college made up of people who had themselves been directly elected to lower level bodies (Regional Councils and District Boards) and in part
through elections from identified
functional groups such as
industrial associations, the
Universities, the legal and medical
profession, Labour Boards and so
on. The relationship with the administration would be retained by a few key officials being members of this council,
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(ii) The
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