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MRS. FAN:
Sir,
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL - 10.2.1988
Electoral Provisions (Amendment) Bill 1988
As a number of my colleagues will be speaking to this Bill, I shall try to be brief.
I shall first comment on the Bill
as it now stands, and then look at the Bill in the context of the Administration's intention.
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The main effect of the Bill is to allow an Urban Councillor to hold an elected seat on a District Board in the
Urban Council area. Urban Councillors who win seats in the
district board forthcoming DB elections will hold their District Board seats for three years in their own right, regardless of their position as Urban Council members. Similarly, District Board members succeed in the next Urban Council elections will not have to relinquish their District Board membership. This seems fair to
me. If a person stands for two separate elections and as a
this result win two seats in two different tiers of the government, and he is capable of fulfilling the obligations of both roles, then there does not appear to be any valid reason to force him to
those resign from one of the seats and then put him back into that seat
through another procedure, but in a different capacity as an ex official member. The Bill removes a restriction which is not
really unnecessary. Therefore, I support the Bill, in that it
historical restriction and gives proper
rationalizes
a
recognition to the democratic process.
Representatives
from the Urban Council opposed this
Bill on the ground that the Administration has the Administration has
Bill only because it intends to sever the
introduced the
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Urban Council
exofficio link with the pistrict boards. While it is true
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to
say that the Administration has such an intention, it is
the certainly not correct to assume that support of this Bill by by Members of this Council automatically implies rubber stamping of the Administration's proposals, nor does it necessarily commit
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