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Letters Patent, or to these Our Instructions, or to any other Instruc- tions from Us under Our Sign Manual and Signet.
for debate.
XXIV. It shall be competent for any Member of the Legislative Questions, etc. Council to propose any question for debate therein; and such question, if seconded-by-any-other-Member, shall be debated and disposed of according to the standing rules and orders:
Provided always that every ordinance, vote, resolution, or question, the object or effect of which may be to dispose of or charge any part of Our revenue arising within the Colony, shall be proposed by the Governor, unless the proposal of the same shall have been expressly allowed or directed by him.
XXV. In the passing of Ordinances the Governor and the Council shall observe, as far as practicable, the following Rules-
1. All laws shall be styled "Ordinances", and the enacting words shall be, "enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.".
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Rules and regulations under which Ordinances are to be enacted.
Form of enacting Ordinances.
Ordinances to
be numbered and methodi-
2. All Ordinances shall be distinguished by titles, and shall be divided into successive clauses or paragraphs, numbered con- secutively, and to every such clause there shall be annexed in the cally arranged. margin a short summary of its contents. The Ordinances of each year shall be distinguished by consecutive numbers, commencing in each year with the number one.
Except in the case of Bills reserved for the signification of Our pleasure, all Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council in any one year shall, if assented to by the Governor, be assented to by him in that year, and shall be dated as of the day on which the assent of the Governor is given, and shall be numbered as of the year in which they are passed: Bills not so assented to by the Governor, but reserved by him for the signification of Our pleasure, shall be dated as of the day and numbered as of the year on and in which they are brought into operation.
Different
be mixed in same Ordinance,
3. Each different matter shall be provided for by a different Ordinance, without intermixing in one and the same Ordinance subjects not to such things as have no proper relation to cach other; and no clause is to be inserted in or annexed to any Ordinance which shall be foreign to what the title of such Ordinance imports, and no per- potual clauso shall be part of any temporary Ordinance.
No clause to be introduced foreign to what title of Ordinance imports. Temporary Ordinances.