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to

of one

representative

and

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 of elections should

be held within the space of twelve

months;

and

(c) ±Éà± 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 Basic Law

envisages a four-year term for

for the legislature of the

the

time being.

The

latest draft of

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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