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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

REVIEW OF DISTRICT BOARD CONSTITUENCY BOUNDARIES

THE PROBLEM

District Board (DB) constituency boundaries need to be reviewed before the next DB elections scheduled for 7 March 1991.

RECOMMENDATION AND ADVICE SOUGHT

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It is Interdepartmental

recommended that Committee to

Constituencies be endorsed in consultation.

the proposals by the Review District Board principle, for public

to advise whether the and whether it should be

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Members will be asked recommendation should be approved handled as a separate publicity exercise.

BACKGROUND AND ARGUMENT Background

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As part of the preparations for the next District Board elections, an Inter-departmental Committee chaired by the Deputy Secretary for Home Affairs was set up in June 1989 to review existing District Board constituency boundaries and to recommend the number of elected seats for each constituency. The Committee submitted its report to the Secretary for Home Affairs in early January 1990 and a copy of this Report is annexed.

Proposals

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The main proposals of the Committee are as follows

(a)

single-seat constituencies as far as practicable;

(b)

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single-seat and

should be provided

63

double-seat

constituencies should be provided for the next term of office of the District Boards (compared with 50 and 107 respectively for the current term);

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