TNAG-2719-FCO40-3925-Hong-Kong-electoral-provisions-and-arrangements-1993 — Page 156

GOVERMENT HOUSE HONG KONG.

TUE 21 SEP 93 09:43

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consideration and approval of the draft legislation by the Executive Council;

detailed

and finally, introduction of the proposed legislation into LegCo for consideration, debate and enactment.

Without knowing the final shave of detailed arrangements that might be agreed, We cannot say definitively how long each of these stages would take. But it is clear we are talking in terms of many months. So the legislative process has to be started as early as possible in the coming Legco session if we are to have the necessary legislation enacted in That is why, even if it were desirable (let feasible), splitting the DB from Legco electoral arrangements would gain us very little extra time.

time.

alone

Signed

(C.M. Leung )

Deputy Secretary for Constitutional Affairs

The Hon. Ronald Arculli,OBE, JP

2718 Jardine House,

1 Connaught Place,

Central,

Hong Kong

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