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PROF. POON (in Cantonese):

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Sir, I thank you for the

groung me

opportunity to speak on the Bill. Originally I do not intend to speak to this Bill put having heard Mr. SZETO Wah,I feel

obliged to say a few words.

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I am a member of the ad hoc group studying this

Bill and I have a degree of understanding of this Bill.

the Bill As far as my understanding serves me, # enables someone

to be at the same time an Urban Councillor and a district

is a liberating measure, not a measure

board member. It

tightening measure,

liberalising

A

tiling up and certainly not as Mr. SZETO Wah has said, it

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is tearing down the link or bridge or

the

staircase between

the Urban Council and district boards. The passage of

this Bill will enable the methods proposed in the White

Paper concerning the link between the two to be effected.

those If this Bill is not passed then there are members who wish

to be simultaneously Urban Council and district board

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members, not to be able to do so.

Sir, with these remarks, I support the motion.