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67.
Transport
Utilities and Communications
- Services
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Sports, Culture and Entertainment
Lands/Works/Housing and Construction
In the view of Her Majesty's Government and the Hong Kong Government, these revised proposals would produce fair and open functional constituency elections based on constituencies of
stat panchise substantial size and importance in the community. A
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1992
Nationality Provision
68. The Chinese side proposed in round nine of the talks that the Hong Kong Government should implement the nationality provision of the Basic Law in 1995, two years before the Basic Law comes into force. The nationality provision provides that permanent residents of the Region who are not of Chinese nationality or who have the right of abode in foreign countries may be elected to the Legislative Council "provided that the proportion of such members does not exceed 20% of the total membership of the Council".
69. The British side made clear that it would not be possible to discriminate in this way against British nationals in elections held in 1995 while Hong Kong was still under British sovereignty. The nationality status of individual members of the legislature could change between the elections in 1995 and 1 July 1997. But the British side said that they would be willing to discuss any Chinese proposals for how this provision might be implemented after 1 July 1997 in the unlikely event that more than 20% of members were at that time foreign nationals or held right of abode outside Hong Kong.
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