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elections to the District Boards are followed by

elections

elections

to

the Municipal Councils and then by

on

to

Most

Submissions to the Legislative Council.

this. were evenly divided the Survey Office

District Board

Board members who spoke on the issue did,

however, advocate such a change. and some public

opinion surveys recorded significant support for it.

63.

The Green Paper also raised for discussion the

office of

possibility

of

the staggering

terms of

different groups of Legislative Councillors so that,

while all tecux

begin in different

be of equal length, they would

was little public

The balance of it was against

years.

response

on this point.

such a change.

There

64.

of office

terms

Boards,

Submissions to the Survey Office and public

opinion surveys indicated that a clear majority of the

community did not favour changing the length of

District for elected members of

Municipal Councils and the Legislative Council.

However most of the members of these bodies who spoke

on the subject did wish to change from a three-year to

a four-year term.

65.

These issues

issues are affected by the arranagements

set out in Chapters IV and V of this White Paper, by

which

the

District

Boards

will

each

elect a

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