TNAG-1716-FCO40-2396-Hong-Kong-1987-Review-of-Representative-Government-1988 — Page 114

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(c) The Presidency of the Legislative Council

DSR 11C (Revised 5/87)

The Governor will continue to be the president of the

Legislative Council for the immediate future.

(d) Practical aspects of elections

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(i)

The sequence of elections will be changed so that

elections to the District Boards, the Municipal Councils

and the Legislative Council are held in that order.

In Confidence

(ii) The age of entitlement to vote and of eligibility

for office will remain at 21.

(iii) A preferential elimination system of voting (as

described in the Green Paper) will be adopted in the 1988

Legislative Council elections.

(iv) The limits on election expenses will be reviewed

regularly.

These relatively minor changes fully reflect the

broad consensus of opinion which has emerged on these

matters in the course of last year's public consultation

exercise in Hong Kong. They are in line with our own

strategy for the steady and gradual development of

representative government in Hong Kong. The Foreign

Secretary believes that it is clearly right that the Honge

Kong Government should proceed in this way.