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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 Rules and shall observe, as far as practicable, the following Rules----
regulations under which Ordinances are to be enacted.
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.".
Form of enacting
Ordinances.
numbered
2. All Ordinances shall be distinguished by titles, and shall be Ordinances divided into successive clauses or paragraphs, numbered consecutively, to be and to every such clause there shall be annexed in the margin a short and summary of its contents. The Ordinances of each year shall be dis- methodically tinguished by consecutive numbers, commencing in each year with the arranged. number one.
Except in the case of Bills reserved for the signification of Our pleasure, all Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council in any onc 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.
subjects not in same Ordinance.
to be mixed
3. Each different matter shall be provided for by a different Different Ordinance, without intermixing in one and the same Ordinance such things as have no proper relation to each 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 perpetual clause shall be part of any temporary Ordinance.
No clause to be introduced foreign to what title of
Ordinance
imports.
Temporary
Ordinances.
XXVI. The Governor shall not, except in the cases hereunder Description mentioned, assent in Our name to any Bill of any of the following classes-
1. Any Bill for the divorce of persons joined together in holy matrimony:
of Bills not to be assented to.