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servants in

engineers,

professional

professional grades (e.g. lawyers,

architects) who, by virtue of their

qualifications, are also eligible

to vote in the various professional FCs.

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But some double-counting is inevitable since at

this stage it is simply not possible to tell the

number of electors who are eligible to register

in more than one FCs.

overall size of the 9

therefore

be rather

[If necessary: the

proposed FCs should

smaller than 860,000 as we

now estimate.]

Where an elector is eligible to register in more

than one FCs, existing legal requirement is that

he

may register in only one FC of his own choice

We plan to retain this

(but see Note).

requirement in future.

[Note: there is an exception to this general

requirement: UC and RC members must register in

RC FCs even though they may also be

register in other FCS. This is to

the UC and

eligible to

protect the

very small franchise of these two

FCs from depletion.]

G.F. 316

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