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CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS BR

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P.02

Should there be a marginal note for Article 2, in line with the practice for other Articles?

We have no objection to the wording "and for the

holding of elections" in line 5 of the Article. As we see it, there is no practical difference

with the wording in our draft.

Article 3(1)

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Given that sub-paragraphs (a) (d) of Article VI(1) of the principal Letters Patent will have all been deleted, and that sub-paragraph (e) will in effect be the only sub-paragraph, the Legal Counsellor may consider amending Article VI(1) to simply read as follows:

"(1)

There shall be a Legislative Council in and for the Colony, and the said Council shall consist of sixty members, being persons who are qualified for election and elected in accordance with laws in that behalf in force in the Colony

and of whom

(a) twenty shall have been returned in respect of

geographical constituencies;

(b)

thirty shall have been returned in respect of functional constituencies; and

(c)

ten

shall have been returned by an election

committee."

Article 4(1)

We

are

not sure that the wording "laws of the