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Summary Comparison of Two Sides' Position

Annex A

BRITISH SIDE

I.

FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES (FCs)

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CHINESE SIDE

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(a) On voters and voting

method, all form of

corporate voting should

be abolished and all

in the 30 FCs

should be individuals.

voters

(b) The

1992

Address

proposed nine new FCs

which together, with the

existing

encompass

(i)

21

the

FCs,

entire

workforce of Hong Kong.

(a) On voters: and voting method, while upholding

the principle of one

corporate body one vote,

the Chinese side may have

some flexibility on how

many

voters

should

represent each corporate body.

The delimitation of the

existing 21 FCs should

remain unchanged, and

(ii)

G.F. 316

In

the

talks we put

revised

they should continue with

their present respective

voting methods.

forward

proposals for new FCs based on organisations.

[See Annex B for the

nine new FCs in the

Address,

the revised

proposals we last put

forward in the talks,

and

their

franchises.]

total

(c) The total franchise of

30

FCs,

under our

proposals

for

the

existing and new FCs, is

around 834 000.

The nine new FCs should

use

(with

exception

corporate

the

of

voting

possible

their

proposed Insurance FC)

(b) In the talks, the Chinese forward proposals for

the nine new FCs.

put

[See Annex B for their

last proposals for the

nine new FCs, and our

of

their

estimates

franchises.]

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