the latter case it is envisaged that each corporate or institutional member of an organisation should nominate an individual who is an official employee of that company/institution to be its representative on the electoral roll for the appropriate constituency. For example, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation, as a member of the HK Association of Banks, would nominate one of its officials/employees to be its representative on the electoral roll for the Financial Sector consituency. Similarly, the HK Society of the Blind, as an instiution affiliated to the HK Council of Social Service, would nominate one of its officials/employees to be its representative on the electoral roll for the Social Service constituency. In the case of the Labour Organisations constituency, the system which is currently used to elect employees represntatives to the Labour Advisory Board would be followed, as far as possible, i.e. each registered employees' trade union would be allowed to nominate a condidate, who must be a fully paid-up member of that union, and each union would cast one vote in the election of the representative for that constituency.
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Wherever possible, the official/employee nominated to be the representative of a company/institution on the relevant constituency electoral roll should also be a registered elector on the general electoral roll.
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Precautions will have to be taken to guard against amendment of the constitutions of the organisations included in each constituency in any way which would be unacceptable as far as the election of representatives to the Legislative Council is concerned, by, for example, providing in
in the electoral legislation a power of suspension from the electoral roll of any organisation which is no longer considered to be suitable for inclusion.
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As regards the qualifications to be
to be a candidate for election by a functional constituency to the Legislative Council, it is envisaged that any person who is on the electoral roll of a functional consituency, either because of his individual membership of an organisation within the constituency or because he is the representative
of a corporate or institutional member of
organisation within that constituency, whould be eligible to be a candidate for that constituency, provided that he is aged 21 or over and has been ordinarily resident in Hong Kong for a minimum of ten years. These are basically the same
as the current qualifications for candidates for the Urban Council and District Boards and the qualifications proposed in the Green Paper for candidates for election to the Legislative Council by the electoral college which is to be composed of all Urban Council, new Regional Council and District Board members. A
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