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REVIEW OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT: DISTRICT BOARD AND MUNICIPAL

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Action Taker

Problem

1.

District Board elections will be held in Hong Kong on 10 March 1988. By law nominations must be open from 1-15 January.

The Hong Kong Government propose to announce on 17 December

arrangements for the elections, including:

(a)

(b)

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(c)

the number of seats;

the Government's intention to retain the present ratio of two

elected members to one appointed member;

the Government's proposal that Urban Council members should

cease to sit on District Boards in 1989; and

(a)

the Government's proposal that dual membership of District

Boards and the Urban Council should in future be permitted.

Points (b) and (c) are decisions on matters raised in the Green

Paper on representative government, and point (d) flows from these

decisions.

Recommendation

2.

I recommend that we accept the Hong Kong Government proposal, although this involves anticipating the White Paper on certain

minor,

points.

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