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Given its policy making functions, it is important that the membership of the Executive Council should encompass a full range of experience and professional knowledge from the main sectors of society and the economy and the different geographical areas and age groups. The elections in the Legislative Council may or may not produce this result and it is proposed that the Governor should have discretion to appoint two members of the Executive Council to ensure that it has the necessary range of experience and professional knowledge available to it.
51.
It is also proposed that the
the three
three principal officers of the Administration, the Chief Secretary, the Financial Secretary and the Attorney General, should continue to be ex-officio members as a link between the Executive Council and
Council and the Administration; and that the Commander British Forces should for the present continue to sit as an ex-officio member of the Council.
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As with the Legislative Council, it is intended the arrangements for introducing a representative element into the composition of the Executive Council should be introduced progressively. Again, on the assumption that the period of office of elected members of both the Legislative and Executive Councils would be for three years, so as to fit in with the electoral cycle for the District Boards and the Regional Councils, it is proposed that four Unofficial members of the Executive Council should be elected by the Legislative Council in 1988 and another four in 1991, following the elections to the Legislative Council in those years.
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