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As the total
memberships of the committees will be
different, SO will the sizes of each of the four sectors
and their sub-sectors.
This should not cause any
theoretical
difficulty to our proposal for each FC to
return an equal number of members to the committee. But
there is a minor technical problem: the number of seats in
a sector will not be equally divisible among our nine FCS.
Under our proposal for an EC of about 600 members, this
problem is dealt with by adjusting the total EC membership
to 612.
Similar adjustments are not possible for the
future committees without amending the BL.
Thus, our
formulation uses the expression "broadly equal", and not
strict equality of numbers for each sub-sector.
9.
On the composition of the fourth sector, the BL again contains specific provisions which are different for
the SC and the post-97 ECs (eg. the SC may include persons
"who have served in Hong Kong's executive, legislative and
advisory organs". In the case of post-97 ECS there is no
reference to "executive organs".) It is therefore not
possible for the committees to model on one another. Furthermore we do not intend to mirror those BL provisions
in 1995, and have put to the Chinese proposals for the
fourth sector of the 95 EC which do not correspond with
the BL provisions for the post-97 ECs.
Eligibility for Committee Membership
10.
Proposal :
as
with the 95' EC, all registered
voters with a substantial connection with the relevant FCS
should be eligible for membership of
the future
committees.
11.
The main problem with this proposal is that the NPC
stipulates that the SC should be "composed
permanent residents of Hong Kong". We have
Decision
entirely of
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