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New clause 3A. 'Repeal and replacement of section 22A.'

CHIEF SECRETARY:

Electoral Provisions (Amendment) Bill 1988

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In accordance with Standing Order 46(6), I move that new Clause 3A as set out in the paper circulated to Members be read a second time.

Clause 3A is redrafted so that section 22A of the principal Ordinance specifically guards against le members of either the Urban Council or a District Board in

the urban area from standing and being elected to a seat

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Regional Council area, and vice versa. As pointed out by Mr. FK, Hy earlier, Members of the Ad Hoc Group were concerned that there seemed to be no provision requiring an Urban Councillor to resign his one seat if he was le elected to a District Board in the Regional Council area, le or a Regional Council member to resign his Council seat if Is he was elected to an urban District Board. The

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Administration is nevertheless confident that both the present Ordinance and the new Bill sufficiently protect against agasint this anomaly; and in any case no Urban Councillor

has been nominated as a candidate for a District Board in

the Regional Council area in the forthcoming elections. Nevertheless, the Administration accepts again that the law could be clarified for the avoidance of doubt.

Sir, I beg to move.

Question put and agreed to.