71. Following the Foreign Secretary's meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister in July 1993, the British side. introduced a revised proposal on the Election Committee in Round eight of the talks. This took account of the main Chinese point by proposing that the Election Committee should be elected by four sectors on the lines set out in Annex 1 of the Basic Law. The first three sectors would be elected by grouping the 30 Functional Constituencies into three groups of ten. Electors in each Functional Constituency would then elect a number of members to the Election Committee, as well as a Functional Constituency representative to the Legislative Council. On the fourth sector, the British side proposed that it should be returned by directly-elected District Board members. They made clear that for the reasons noted above, it would not be appropriate for members of the 1991 Legislative Council, or Hong Kong representatives of the NPC and CPPCC to serve on the Election Committee simply by virtue of their membership of these bodies.
72. On voting method, the British side proposed that the Functional Constituencies would elect the first three sectors by the block-vote method, ie each Functional Constituency elector would have as many votes as that Functional Constituency returned members to the Election Committee. Elections within the Election Committee would use the single transferable vote method. Any registered voter would be eligible for election by the Election Committee provided he or she secured at least five nominations by Election Committee
members.
73. In the view of Her Majesty's Government and the Hong Kong Government, this revised proposal, although less simple than the Governor's original proposal, would meet the essential
requirements by ensuring that the Election Committee would be
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