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CONFIDENTIAL

college electing the 12 members in one vote, 10 will be

elected by separate groups of District Board Members

organised on a regional basis and the other two by the

Urban Council and proposed New Territories Regional

Council respectively. There will thus be a form of

constituency.

(c)

Similarly, 12 members (instead of the 6 originally

proposed) will be elected in 1985 by 9 functional

constituencies representing various sectors of the

community (eg commerce, industry, education, social

services). There will thus be 24 elected members in all.

(d) The number of appointed members of LEGCO will be

reduced in 1985 from the present total of 30 to 22

(instead of the Green Paper 23), and the number of

official members from the present 16 to 10 (instead of

13). With the additional elected members LEGCO will

therefore have 56 members instead of the present 46 and

the 48 originally proposed in the Green Paper

(e) The White Paper will contain a comitment to a

further review of progress towards representative

Government once the 1985 arrangements have had time to

become established. It will cover such areas as the

desirablity of direct elections, the possible

introduction of a ministerial system the future

development of the Executive Council and the position of

the Governor as President of LEGCO. The Green Paper

/proposed