TNAG-2728-FCO40-3934-Hong-Kong-elections-proposed-functional-constituencies-1993 — Page 98

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The

Financial Services FC is already very small (eligible electorate: 1,043, registered: 647;

mixture of corporate and individual electors.)

Splitting insurance from it would therefore

create two even smaller FCs

electors,

Financial Services:

(Insurcance:

230

813 electors).

The proposal

Definitely a retrograde step.

therefore goes against the guideline that FCS

should be substantial.

If, notwithstanding its small franchise, we were

to proceed to establish an Insurance FC, this

could well lead to demands by other small sectors

now subsumed under existing FCs to have FCs of

their own.

[Examples: Dentists (eligible

electors: 1450) in the Medical FC (6,800), or

deposit-taking companies (144) in the Finance FC (400)] Where will such demands and arguments lead

us to?

G.F. 316

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