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Background and Arguments

3.

The Boundary and

2

Election

Commission

Ordinance

stipulates

that the BEC must submit its recommendations on the

Municipal Council (MC) and District Board (DB) constituency

boundaries to the Governor

not later than 31 December 1993.

Before doing SO it must

one

month for

public

To meet

allow for a statutory period of

consultation on its provisional

this deadline, the Commission has

recommendations.

already started work with a view to producing provisional

recommendations by end October for the purpose of public

This is being done, as required by law,

consultation.

on the basis of the existing number of MC constituencies (i.e.

not allowing for any increase which will be needed as a

consequence of our proposal to abolish appointed MC seats).

4.

The BEC

has

as the

no problem in demarcating.

basic parameter i.e. about 338 elected

DB

constituencies

DB members (and thus a corresponding number of constituencies)

for the 1994 DB election has been provided for in the

However, this is not the case for demarcating

DB

Ordinance.

MC constituencies.

Our original intention was to have

legislative amendments to increase the number of elected

MC members for the 1995 MC elections by amending the

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