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representative

to one

and of the Municipal Councils,

the Municipal Councils will each elect a Member to the

Legislative Council. This system would clearly work

best if elections to the successive tiers of government

were to follow in sequence and if the terms of office

at all three levels were of equal length.

66.

The Government has therefore decided:

(a)

that elections

to

the District Boards,

the

Municipal Councils and the

Legislative Council should be held in

that order;

(b) that all three sets

sets of elections should

be held

within the space of twelve

months;

and

(c) that the terms of office of different

groups of Legislative Councillors should

not be staggered.

67.

The terms of office of Elected Members of the

Legislative Council will continue to be three years for

the time being. The latest draft of the Basic Law

envisages a four-year term for

for the legislature of the

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

If the Basic

Law does provide for this, the question of introducing

such a change before 1997 will then be examined.

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