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presidency of the Legislative

Members of the

themselves the Hon. [

Council.

Council. On [

],

Legislative Council elected from amongst ] as president of the To enhance the accountability of the executive to the legislature, the Governor regularly attends sittings of the Legislation Council to answer questions from Members on Government policies.

4.

the

Governor has proposed that

In respect of the second category of items in the

constitutional package,

starting from the next round voting

should age

eligible member of

be

of elections, in 1994/95, the lowered from 21 to 18; that every Hong Kong's working population should be able to vote in one of the functional constituencies; and

that an independent commission should be set up to make

demarcation

recommendations

to

the Governor on the

of

constituency boundaries and to oversee the arrangements for the conduct of elections. The Governor has further proposed that the number of directly elected seats in the Municipal Councils and the District Boards should be increased and that

their appointed seats should be abolished; that the responsibilities of the District Boards should be increased; and that an Election Committee drawing all or most of its

members from the elected District Boards should be established to elect up to ten Legislative Council members in These proposals are being discussed within the Hong

Kong Community and with the Chinese Government. envisaged that the necessary legislative amendments to bring

these proposals into effect will be

into the introduced

Legislative Council during the early part of 1993.

1995.

It is

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