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number of directly elected seats in 1995 nor on three other

areas the election committee, for the first Legislative Council after 1997, the new nationality provisions for the SAR legislature and the voting method of the SAR legislature. The

1990 exchange is inconclusive on these points. Exchanges took

place between publication of 2nd Draft BL, and final version. In the event, the final version, published in April 1990, contained no provisions on the composition of the election committee for the first LegCo after 1997. Neither the British nor the Chinese proposals on this aspect were reflected in the text. Those discussions have now been overtaken.

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