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10 MAY 1934
Question 1
Dr Ho Kam-fai
OFSK OFFICER
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Will Government elaborate on how it plans to develop on increasingly representative lines during the years immediately ahead?
REPLY BY THE HONOURABLE THE CHIEF SECRETARY
IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON WEDNESDAY, 2nd MAY 1984
Sir,
Dr Ho obviously has in mind what the Secretary of State said in his Statement opening his press conference in this Chamber on 20th April last. He said: "During the years immediately ahead, the Government of Hong Kong will be developed
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on increasingly representative lines". subsequent question he said that "Steps have recently been taken in that direction, (that) further progress in that
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is clearly in mind
direction progress) may take different forms
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The steps that have recently been taken were outlined in the Statement I made to this Council on 15th February when I described certain proposals for the further development of our system of local administration. The most significant
of these proposals were that the representative status of the District Boards should be strengthened in March 1985 by increasing the number and hence the relative importance of elected members; and that another regional-level council, which would include elected as well as appointed members, should be established in 1986 to cover those areas not under the aegis of the Urban Council.
There has been extensive public discussion of, and comment upon, these proposals. All views expressed have been carefully recorded and studied and specific recommendations will be put to the Executive Council for advice in the very near future. Thereafter, I hope to be able to make a further, definitive, Statement to this Council about the Government's actual intentions for the further development of our system of local administration at district and "regional" level.
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