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The Government has therefore decided that,
when the next Municipal Council elections take place in
March 1989, each of the ten District Boards in the
urban area should elect a representative to sit on the
Urban Council. Urban Councillors will at the same time
cease to be ex-officio members of the urban District
Boards. The Government also believes it is right to
amend the legislation concerning cross-membership
between the Urban Council and urban District Boards, to
bring it into line with that presently in force in the
Regional Council area. Thus, the Government proposes
to remove the requirement for a member of
of the Urban
Council to resign from the Council if he is elected to
an urban District Board, and vice versa. Some of these
proposals were announced in December 1987, before the
this White Paper, in order to enable
publication of this White
Urban Councillors wishing to continue as District Board
members beyond March 1989 to stand for election in the
District Board elections on 10 March 1988.
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in the
the other
There was less public interest in
issues in the Green Paper affecting the Municipal
Some submissions commented in favour of
Councils.
retaining two separate Councils. There was general
support for the present arrangements regarding the
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