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REVIEW OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT : DISTRICT BOARDS AND MUNICIPAL COUNCILS : REVISED SPEAKING NOTE.

2. AT PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE UC ARE ALSO MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO OF A DB. IF THEY ARE ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE UC THEY ARE EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OF THE DB IN THE DISTRICT FROM WHICH THEY ARE ELECTED TO THE UC. APPOINTED MEMBERS OF THE UC ARE ALLOCATED TO DBS. EXISTING LEGISLATION STATES THAT A MEMBER OF THE UC WHO IS ELECTED AS A MEMBER OF A DB MUST GIVE UP HIS SEAT ON THE UC: SIMILARLY A MEMBER OF A DB WHO IS ELECTED TO THE UC MUST GIVE UP HIS SEAT ON THE DB.

3. THE ARRANGEMENTS IN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL ARE DIFFERENT. DBS IN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL AREA ELECT REPRESENTATIVES TO SIT ON THE REGIONAL COUNCIL.

5. THE HKG HAS NOW DECIDED THAT AS FROM 1989 MEMBERS OF THE UC SHOULD CEASE TO BE EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OF DBS. INSTEAD EACH DB SHOULD ELECT ONE REPRESENTATIVE MEMBER TO THE UC, AS IS DONE IN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL AREA. THIS WILL BE MADE PUBLIC IN THE WHITE PAPER TO BE ISSUED IN FEBRUARY 1988.

6. THERE IS HOWEVER AN IMMEDIATE PROBLEM THAT ARISES BECAUSE THE

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