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of membership of the legislature

between 1995 and 1997.

is also not clear how the proposed 15 percent

zule Would be implemented. The electoral law of the SAR would need to prescribe the procedures in detail. The British Government believes that such legal stipulations would inevitably be complicated

For example, if the number of

successful candidates who were foreign nationals

or had a right of abode in foreign countries

the proposed ceiling, it would be

and inflexible.

exceeded

difficult

to decide which of the candidates should

be asked to step down in order to meet the 15

percent rule and how the vacancies thus created

should be filled.

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clarification

British

Government would be grateful for as to whether permanent residents who are not