RULES OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL-HONGKONG
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(3) All papers. shall be ordered to lie upon the table without question put and motion for the printing thereof shall be determined without amendment or
bate.
(4) All Rules and Orders made by the Governor in Executive Council under authority of an Ordinance, which do not require the approval of the Legislative uncil, shall be laid on the table as soon as may be after being made.
11.-QUESTIONS TO MEMBERS
(1) Questions may be put to official members relative to public affairs with ich they are officially connected, proceedings pending in the Council, or any atter of administration for which such members are responsible.
(2) Questions may also be put to other members, relating to a bill, motion, or her public matter connected with the business of the Council for which such mem-
rs are responsible.
(3) A question shall not contain arguments, inferences, opinions, imputations, ithets, ironical expressions, or hypothetical cases.
(4) A question shall not include the names of persons, or statements, not rictly necessary to render the question intelligible, nor contain charges which the ember, who asks the question, is not prepared to substantiate.
(5) A question must not be asked for the purpose of obtaining an expression opinion, the solution of an abstract legal case, or the answer to a hypothetical oposition.
(6) A question shall not be asked without written notice unless it is of an gent character and the member has obtained the leave of the President so to ask it. (7) A question must not be made the pretext for a debate, nor can a question lly answered be asked again without the leave of the President.
(8) A member may ask a supplementary question for the purpose of further ucidating any matter of fact regarding which an answer has been given; but a pplementary question must not be used to introduce matter not included in the iginal question.
12. MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR AND ADDRESS BY THE GOVERNOR
A message from the Governor, if presented to the Council by an official member, ay be brought up at any time before the commencement or at the close of public usiness, and shall be considered forthwith or ordered to be considered upon a ture day as the member presenting it may appoint. The Governor may address e Council at any time.
12.-MANNER OF GIVING NOTICES
(1) Where under any Standing Order (or the practice of the Council) notice required, such notice shall be given by being handed in at the Table during the tting of the Council or by delivery at the office of the Clerk or other place appointed Standing Order (or the President) within the hours prescribed for the purpose.
(2) Except with the permission of the President, no notice shall be valid for hy particular meeting of Council unless it shall have been so handed in or delivered least three clear days before such meeting of Council. Sundays and holidays hall not be included in the computation of the said period of three days.
(3) Any such notice shall be printed and shall be circulated to members of the ouncil, if possible not less than two clear days before the next meeting of the ouncil for which it is valid.