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(vi) subject to subparagraph (vii), the

candidate or candidates with the least

number of votes shall be eliminated

and the votes of that candidate or

those candidates shall be transferred

to the candidates then remaining in

accordance with the next available

preferences marked on the ballot

papers until the relevant number of

candidates are elected as elected

Members; and

(vii) where, at the final stage of the

count, one or more of the relevant

number of candidates have not been

elected as elected Members because of

his or their inability to obtain a

quota of votes in accordance with

subparagraph (iv) that candidate or those candidates then remaining (and

not eliminated at that stage) shall be declared by the returning officer to

be elected;

(b) in respect of the functional constituencies

specified in Part I of Schedule 2, in accordance

with the preferential elimination system of election (otherwise known as the alternative

vote system of election) which system shall include the following features, that is to say

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