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What are the major implications?

I arrive at the

quorum

is

major implications after some thoughts. Let us go one

step backwards first. At present, we do not have clear

demarcation among all the organisations and bodies. A MAC

serves as a policy making body SO long as а

there. If more than a half of the participants in a

certain MAC give their support to a candidate, consider

this question, if the floor representatives or some of the

residents do not give their support to the candidate, will

these people who do not give support to the candidate come

up with some reasons saying that the decision made by the

MAC should be overruled. If that happens, then there may

be a meeting of all the residents, so it will lead on to

problems and problems. And the Secretary for District

Administration may have to bear all these consequences.

So this may happen. We must carefully consider all these

scenarios. So we must try to resolve all these problems

before we formulate the White Paper. Maybe we need not go

that far. Just consider the first two points made by me

earlier on. For example, the candidates can only quote

sponsors who have given them support in public or make

objective statements. Maybe this would solve the

problem. It will not lead us to problems involving the

law and structure of Hong Kong and all that sort of thing.

Basically, I give my support to the Bill. But I

hope that as concluding remarks, I can make these points.