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constituencies

all forms

of

are concerned, I propose that

corporate

voting should te

replaced by individual voters.

Thus

corporate voters in the business and

industrial constituencies should be replaced

by individuals who own Or control the

management of the

So, for example,

companies that are

corporations concerned.

all

the

directors of

members of the General

Chamber of Commerce would be able to vote,

instead of just the companies themselves, as

was the case hitherto. According to the

same principle, votes would be given to

designated office bearers of trade unions in

the labour functional

functional constituency;

registered social workers would be able to

vote alongside those responsible for the

management of welfare agencies in the social

services constituency.

and

145.

Taken together, these

measures

would expand the franchise in the functional

constituencies concerned by more than five

times. It would also seem

broaden

the

franchise

sensible to

for

certain

professional constituencies

care, teaching, and the

architectural, surveying

constituencies].

(e.g., health

engineering,

and

planning

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