67.
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Transport
Utilities and Communications
Services
- 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 substantial size and importance in the community.
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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