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GOVERNENT HOUSE HONG KONG.

FRI 97 HOG 92 11:50

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Constitutional Affairs Working Group

F6.02

The points

10:15am

raised at

first the

meeting of the group at

on 6.8.92 are recorded in the following paragraphs:

The Governor thanked SCA in absentia and all those concerned for their work in preparing the papers on the

various subjects.

Report of the Select Committee on LegCo Election (Paper No.

1/92)

2.

The meeting noted the paper.

Boundary and Election Commission (Paper No. 2/92)

3.

Ag.

SCA

and said that the

the introduced

paper

difficulty was not So much with the number of members of the proposed Commission but the Select Committee's other proposal that the deputy president (or elected president) of LegCo should have the power to appoint one member of the Commission. After a brief discussion of arrangements in UK

and Canada, the Governor thought that he should appoint all members of the Commission but we should not insist on this depending on the strength of ExCo/LegCo's feeling in this

respect.

Minimum Voting Age (Paper No. 3/92)

4.

The

meeting agreed that the minimum voting age should be lowered from 21 to 18. It was noted that Lu Ping also supported the idea.

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