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MY TWO IPTS: HONG KONG AGREEMENT:

PARLIAMENT

INDLA

PA

POISTRY Action Taken

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RESTRICTED:

ANNUAL REPORT TO

FOLLOWING IS REMAINDER OF TEXT OF REVISED ANNUAL REPORT.

BEGINS:-

23.

THE FIRST ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WERE HELD

ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1985 (SIX OF THE 24 NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

MEMBERS WERE ELECTED UNOPPOSED). THE TURN-OUT RATE FOR THE

ELECTORAL COLLEGES WAS 98.5 PER CENT FOR THE FUNCTIONAL

CONSTITUENCIES IT WAS 57.6 PER CENT RANGING FROM 97.2 PER CENT

IN THE SOCIAL SERVICES CONSTITUENCY TO 45.1 PER CENT

IN THE INDUSTRIAL CONSTITUENCY. THE NEW COUNCIL MET FOR THE

FIRST TIME ON 30 OCTOBER 1985 IN A NEW COUNCIL CHAMBER.

24.

THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FORMS THE APEX OF THE THREE

LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT. IN CONSTRUCTING THIS FRAMEWORK FOR MORE

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT SOUGHT TO

ESTABLISH CLOSE LINKS BETWEEN THE THREE LEVELS. URBAN

COUNCILLORS SIT ON THE URBAN DISTRICT BOARDS: REGIONAL DISTRICT

BOARD MEMBERS WILL SIT IN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL, TOGETHER WITH

REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL THE MAJOR FUNCTIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND

SECTORS OF HONG KONG SOCIETY. THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE IS THUS

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