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メ ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS To Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies or other Officer for the time being Administering the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies.
We do hereby direct and enjoin and declare Our Will and Pleasure as follows-
1.--(1) These Instructions may be cited as the Hong Kong Additional Instructions 1988 and shall be construed as one with the Hong Kong Royal Instructions of 1917 as amended (hereinafter called "the principal Instructions").
(2) The Hong Kong Royal Instructions 1917 to 1986 and these Instructions may be cited together as the Hong Kong Royal Instructions 1917 to 1988.
(3) These Instructions shall be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette
and shall come into operation upon the date of such publication. The membership (4) Notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 2 of these Instructions, a member of the Executive Council appointed prior to the commencement of these Instructions shall continue to hold Office as such in accordance as the terms of the principal Instructions
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not be affected by the changs in descriptes, made by Clause 2 of these Instructions.
2. Clause II of the principal Instructions is amended by deleting the word “Unofficial" wherever it occurs and substituting the word "Appointed“.
3. Clause III of the principal Instructions is amended. They occur
(a) by deleting the words "or Unofficial" where it occurs in the phrase "an
Official or Unofficial Member of the Council”; and
(b) by deleting the words "an Unofficial" where it occurs/elsewhere and
substituting the words “an Appointed“.
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4. Clause XXI of the principal Instructions is amended in paragraph (2) by deleting there shall preside at any meeting of the Council" and substituting the following from a meeting of the Legislative Council there shall preside at that meeting".
5. Clause XXIA of the principal Instructions is amended by deleting paragraph (3) and substituting the following-
“(3) The consideration of any Bill or other business of the Legislative Council shall not be affected by the termination of a session and may be resumed at any subsequent sitting, but shall lapse on a dissolution of the Legislative Council.“.
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Amendment of Clause III of principal Instructions.
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Amendment of Clause XXIA of principal Instructions.
6. Clause XXV of the principal Instructions is amended in paragraph (2) by Amendment of deleting paragraphs, numbered consecutively, and to every such clause there shall be annexed in the margin a short summary of its contents" and substituting the following paragraphs numbered consecutively".
Clause XXV of principal Instructions.
7. Clause XXVIII of the principal Instructions is amended by deleting and of Amendment of the marginal summary thereof.
8. Clause XXVIIIA of the principal Instructions is amended
Clause XXVIII of principal Instructions.
Amendment of Clause XXVIIIA of
in paragraph (1) by deleting the proviso and substituting the following- "Provided that the Legislative Council shall stand dissolved in the third year after the latest election for all the Elected Members of the Legislative principal Council on such date as the Governor shall fix being a date not earlier than 60 days and not later than 30 days before the anniversary of that election. (b) in paragraph (2) by deleting "the Council" wherever it occurs and
substituting the following "the Legislative Council”,
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