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income groups emerging at this level to advisory

committees and eventually to the Legislative Council

should be encouraged. Some expansion of the Legis-

lative Council is also desirable,

to enable it

to deal with the increasing sophistication of

Government and with the extra-legislative duties of Unofficial members should collectivelyperform the func-

tion ombudsmen with considerable success. Clearly, the

appointment of representatives emerging from the lower

income groups will require the payment of allowances

unofficial members of the Executive and Legislative

Councils. The existing translation, secretarial and

research staff of the office of the unofficial members

of the Executive and Legislative Councils will also

need to be strengthened.

to

In due course, In due course, it might

be desirable to appoint "unofficial members", drawn

from the Executive Council but answerable in the

Legislative Council for particular fields of policy

in the same way that official members are at present.

In these ways, the Legislative Council can be made

more representative and less alien and more responsive,

30 RD.

We have considered the arguments for and against

a substantial increase in the size of the Legislative

Council, and the question of whether it is possible

and desirable to differentiate the functions of the

Executive and Legislative Councils more clearly than

at present. On the first, we conclude that a

Legislative Council representing all aspects of Hong

ong society should only be as large as is necessary to

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7447 D073840 101M 8/74 Cr.P.C. 839/3

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