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constituencies.

reduced, to an extent, if the constituencies concerned were

provided with more than one seat. Option (iii) would be

favoured by those sectors seeking recognition as functional

Careful judgements would be required,

however, as to which groups should or should not be

included. In deciding which additional group or groups

merit inclusion as functional constituencies, it would be

necessary to have regard to the following principles :

(a)

functional constituencies should be substantial

and of importance in the community;

(b)

any new constituency should be clearly defined to

avoid difficulties over who qualifies for

inclusion and how the vote in each constituency is

organised;

(c)

(a)

constituencies

should not be based on ideology,

dogma or religion;

be

particular groups or bodies should not

not represented

in more than one functional constituency.

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