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C190

Amendment of section 3.

ELECTIONS (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) BILL

(c) by deleting the definition of "election" and substituting the following

definition-

"election" means an ordinary election or a by-election of persons to act

as members---

(a) of the Urban Council;

(b) of the Regional Council; or

(c) of a District Board;";

(d) in the definition of “member" by inserting after “Council” the following—

", of the Regional Council";

(e) in the definition of "ordinary election" by inserting after "Council” the

following-

(Cap. 366.)

(

", on the Regional Council";

by inserting after the definition of "provisional register" the following definition-

"Regional Council area" has the meaning assigned to it in the District

Boards Ordinance;";

(g) by deleting the full stop after the definition of "specified form" and

substituting a semicolon;

(h) by inserting after the definition of "specified form" the following defini-

tion-

(Cap. 366.)

""Urban Council area" has the meaning assigned to it in the District

Boards Ordinance.";

(i) by being renumbered as subsection (1); and

(j) by inserting after subsection (1) the following—

"(2) This Ordinance shall not apply to the election by the members of a District Board in the Regional Council area of a representative member to the Regional Council.

(3) In subsection (2) "representative member" has the meaning of 1985.) assigned to it in the Regional Council Ordinance 1985.".

17. Section 3 of the second principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) in subsection (1) by deleting paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) and substituting the

following-

"(a) the Governor in Council may declare any area of a District in the Urban Council area to be a constituency for the purpose of the election of persons to act as members of the Urban Council;

(b) the Governor in Council may declare any area of a District in the Regional Council area to be a constituency for the purpose of the election of persons to act as members of the Regional Council; (c) the Governor in Council may declare any area of a District to be a constituency for the purpose of the election of persons to act as members of the District Board established for that District;

(d) the Governor may, in respect of any constituency declared under paragraph (a), (b) or (c), declare the number of vacancies for members of that constituency."; and

(b) in subsection (2) by deleting "or (b)" and substituting the following-

", (b) or (c)".