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(c) The number of Official members of the Council

should be gradually reduced.

(d) To start with, these arrangements should be

introduced in two stages

in 1985 and 1988

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following the District Board elections in those years.

(e) The

composition of the Legislative Council by

1988 should be -

(i)

12 Unofficial members elected by the electoral college,

(ii)

12 Unofficial members elected by the functional constituencies,

(iii) 16 appointed Unofficial members, and

(iv) ten Official members.

(f) In 1989, after the 1988 elections to the Council have taken place, there should be a review of the further position with view to deciding what

a developments should be pursued.

The Executive Council

(g) The majority of the appointed Unofficial members of the Executive Council should be replaced progressively by members elected by the Unofficial members of the Legislative Council from among their number, but a small number of members should continue to be appointed by the Governor and the four ex-officio members should remain as members of the Council.

(b) These

two

arrangements should be introduced in stages 1988 and 1991 following the elections to the Legislative Council in those years.

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(i) The eventual composition of the Executive Council

by 1991 should be

(i) at least eight members elected by the members of the Legislative

Unofficial

Council,

(ii) two members appointed by the Governor, and

(iii) four ex-officio members,

although these numbers might be modified in the light of the review of the position of the Legislative Council in 1989.