which some people who are not classified as members of any sector do not have the right to vote. Furthermore, under such a classification method which emphasizes people's social and economic contributions, the views of workers at the grass-roots level and voters who are not directly involved in economic activities, such as housewives and students, are not adequately recognized and reflected.
In order to give the labour classes a voice in the Legislative Council to achieve a balance of interests, the Association proposes that the nine new seats should be distributed as follows:
Labour (4 seats), Women (1 seat), concerned groups for the elderly and the disabled (1 seat), Agriculture and fisheries (1 seat) and Culture and Entertainment (1 seat). The Association also proposes that the seat of Heung Yee Kuk which only looks after the benefits of the decreasing number of indigenous residents in the N. T. be deleted. The seat thus vacated should be taken up by the Information Technology Sector, a fast developing new industry. (For details, please refer to Table 1)
2.1
"Eligibility of voters"
The Association emphasizes that voters of the functional constituency should all be individual voters. This means that registered members of all registered bodies or organizations should have the right to vote. For example, voters of the Labour Sector refer to all members of registered trade unions, rather than just to their executive committee members. Similarly, voters of the Women Sector refer to all members of the existing women services organizations or bodies. The same should apply to all
all other functional constituencies.
Table 1: Proposal on the distribution of the
functional constituency seats (preliminary proposal)
Constituencies
Orginal Estimated
number
Number of
of seats
no. of electors
seats
Commercial
(2)
48,700
ลง
2
Industrial
(2)
19,200
2
Financial
(2)
9,100
ลง
2
Real Estate & construction
(1)
3,800
1
Tourism
(1)
7,200
1
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