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ISSUE

MUNICIPAL COUNCILS AND

DISTRICT BOARDS (Membership)

FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES (FCS)

(For 30 seats: 21 existing, 9 new)

BRITISH SIDE'S ORIGINAL 1992 PROPOSALS

Abolition of appointed members.

Abolish corporate voting in existing or new FCs. Nine

new FCs extend the

franchise to entire 2.7 million workforce.

REVISED BRITISH PROPOSALS

No change from original proposals.

Abolish corporate voting as in original proposals. New FCs revised with 6 of them building on Chinese ideas.

Electorate reduced to under 900,000.

CHINESE PROPOSALS

Retention of appointed members system. Hints that we could abolish in 1994/95, but Chinese side would reinstate in 1997.

Existing FCs unchanged. Nine new FCs all based on corporate voting. Total FC Electorate about 130,000.