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The Green Paper

6.

The Green Paper of May 1987 sought the views

o f the community on whether the system of

representative government should be further developed

in

1988 and, if so, in what manner.

addressed in the Green Paper were:

The main issues

(a) the composition and functions of the

District Boards and Municipal Councils

and possible ways of improving the links

between them;

(b)

the composition of the Legislative

Council and the methods of selecting its

Members, including whether and, if so,

when an element of direct elections

should be introduced:

(c) whether the Governor should continue to

be the

President

Council; and

of the Legislative

(d) practical aspects of

aspects of elections

to

the

District Boards, the Municipal Councils

and the Legislative Council.

G.F. 316

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