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Urgency of enacting legislation for

the 1994/95 electoral arrangements

the

would

be

period

continue.

most unsettling and indeed intolerable if should be allowed to uncertainties of Clearly, the sooner the matter is resolved,

the less damaging it will be for the morale of the HK

community

and for

the

particular.

I

confidence

of

investors

in

event, any

In

time-table,

because of the tight

electoral

there

is

a

practical

need

to

have

legislation in place by mid-1993.

In

order

to

voters register

constituencies,

the

constituency

in the

boundaries for the

appropriate

1994 DBS and the 1995 MCs must be firmed up by early

1994

The Boundary

and

Election Commission (BEC)

will be

boundaries.

entrusted with the task of, inter alia, recommending to the Governor the demarcation of DB and MC constituency the complexity of the task, and on

Given

the basis

established

of past

by July

with

this deadline,

be experience,

1993 at

¡ Even the very latest. ¿

be working Commission the

the BEC must

will

under extremely tight schedule (see Annex).]

In

drawing up its recommendations, the BEC will need to

know:

(i)

the composition of the DBC and the MCS; and

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