elector may apply to be registered at the time fixed annually for the registration of new electors.
112. An elector may vote only in the constituency in which he has been registered. He may, however, stand for election to the Urban Council. the Regional Council or a district board in any constituency, provided he has been resident in Hong Kong for the preceding 10 or more years and his nomination is supported by 10 electors in that constituency. Elections are held on a three-year cycle and voting is by simple majority.
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The network of government boards and committees is a distinctive feature of the system of government in the territory which seeks to obtain, through consultation with interested groups in the community, the best possible advice on which to base decisions. Thus advisory bodies of one kind or another are found in nearly all government departments and quasi government bodies. general, advisory bodies may be divided into five categories: statutory bodies which give advice to a head of department (such as the Po Leung Kuk Advisory Board); statutory bodies which give advice to the government (such as the Board of Education); non statutory bodies which give advice to a head of department (such as the Advisory Committee on Social Work Training); non-statutory bodies which give advice to the government (such as the Transport Advisory Committee); and committees which are executive in nature (such as the Hong Kong Examinations Authority).
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Government officials and members of the public are represented on these committees. Well over 5000 members of the public are appointed to serve on a total of 432 boards and committees, and some serve on more than one of these advisory bodies. These members are appointed on account of their specialist knowledge or expertise through their record or interest in contributing to the life of the community. Increasing importance has been attached to the contribution they make to the formulation and execution of government policies and, in order to utilise their potential to the full, a systematic and regular monitoring of the composition and effectiveness of these bodies is carried out. Where appropriate. the government will broaden the cross section of representation and encourage an inflow of new ideas through a reasonable turnover of membership.
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On 27 May 1987 a Green Paper entitled "The 1987 Review of Developments in Representative Government" was published and made widely available. The purpose of the Review was to consider whether the systems of representative government in Hong Kong should be developed in 1988 and if so, in what manner. An independent survey office was established to collect the views of the public concerning this and over 135 000 submissions were received. A White Paper setting out the Government's proposals for the further development of representative government will be published in early 1988.
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