TNAG-2722-FCO40-3928-Hong-Kong-elections-Election-Committee-1993 — Page 18

SECRET Z

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For handing over to

the Chinese side

An Election Committee Based

on Paragraph 2 of Annex I

of the Basic Law

Explanatory Note

(1) This model has been devised

(a) on the basis of the ratio and composition of the

Election Committee set out in Paragraph 2 of Annex

(b)

I of the Basic Law.

to meet the requirements of

(i)

the

Chinese

side

that

functional

constituencies should be used to return

members to the first three sectors.

(ii) the British side that all members of the

Committee should be returned through fair and

open elections in Hong Kong; and that

elections in the Committee should be fair and

open.

(2) In the first three sectors, functional constituencies

marked with an # are the nine new

constituencies proposed by the

are

the

British

existing

functional

side.

The

functional

remaining

21

constituencies.

(3) The total

membership of the Election Committee should

be equally divided among the four sectors.

G.F. 316

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