TNAG-1724-FCO40-2437-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 97

10.2.88

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

Electoral Provisions (Amendment) Bill 1988

MR. DESMOND LEE :

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When you arrived to assume office on 9th April last year, you made reference, in your Address, to further developments in the system of representative government.

Brudent remarked that changes should be steady and gradual. announcement on 18th December 1987 about a proposed change in the cross membership arrangement of District Boards and the Urban Council, which has brought about this Bill, is abrupt, ill-timed and lacking in consultation. It therefore runs prudent contrary to your intention that changes should be steady and

gradual.

If the proposed change is aimed at improving the relationship between District Boards and the Urban Council, I do not see how it will achieve the purpose. This Bill has brought about a lot of disadvantages before advantages have had time to emerge (未見其利,先見其害).

*Я). Relationships have worsened between members of District Boards and the Urban Council because some of them are now running elections against one another. Members of all the three tiers of representative

Some government have found themselves unfairly treated. members of the Urban Council are running District Board elections at an extremely short notice in fact. Several District Board members and candidates are suddenly confronted with a few superior Furthermore, Members of this Council are presented with a Bill which puts into effect a change proposed by the White Paper, without being informed of the remainder of the contents and

related changes.

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less than three weeks,

contestants.

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