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CONST AFFAIRS BRANCH

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2.04.05

1995.

we propose that the constituencies for the 1995

Municipal Council elections should be drawn on a ratio of

100,000 people per seat. On this basis, the Urban Council

seats;

would have 32

9 District

membership

directly-elected

representatives,

Board

together with the

it would have a total

of 41. As for the Regional Council, it would on

the same basis have 27

with the 9 District

ex-officio members,

directly-elected seats; together

Board representatives and the 3

who are the Chairman and Vice-chairmen

of the Heung Yee Kuk, the Regional Council would have a

total of 39 members.

7.

Fifthly, our law at present prohibits a person who

is a member of any parliament, assembly or council, whether

central or local, of any place outside - Horg Kona

(including China) from nomination as a candidate for, anu

from

holding office in the Legislative Council, the

Municipal Councils and the District Boards. The Select

Committee on Legislative Council Elections recommended in

its report in July 1992 that the Administration should

consider lifting this restriction in respect of deputies of

China's People's Congresses. In the course of the

Sino-British talks on the 1994-95 electoral arrangements,

the Chinese side have also proposed that this restriction

should be removed.

circumstances

Taking into account the special

of Hong Kong's

transition to the status of