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58.

Some

intecim adjustments to the terms of

office of the District Boards and the Municipal

Councils are necessary to prepare for the new sequence

of elections. Accordingly, the Municipal Councils'

next term will last fron April 1989 to March 1991.

J.

term

will

the

District Boards beginning

SO that, in also be adjusted

elections to be held after 1991,

April

The

in (March) 1991

the next

set

оё

the District Board

elections will take place in August or September, i.e.

about six months before

to elections

the Municipal

Councils and one year before those to the Legislative

Council.

Ages of Entitlement to vote and Eligibility for Office

69.

There was much public interest in the issue of

the voting age and a clear majority of opinion from all

it should remain at 21 years. considered that

needed

Sources

Many people felt that

more

before people below

that

civic education was

age would be ready for

the

vote.

There was

little

interest

in

the

age

of

eligibility

for

candidature.

Most

of those

who

commented believed

that this

too should

should remain

at 21

years.

70.

The

has Government

decided

not

to change

either the voting age or the age of eligibility for

office.

It has, since the 1984 White Paper, stepped up

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