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Repeal and replacement of section 22A.
Consequential amendment. (Cap. 366.)
Ord. No. 11/88
"Effect of election to second District Board.
4.
ELECTORAL PROVISIONS (AMENDMENT)
22. Any person who, being a member of a trict Board, is elected as a member of another District Board shall not be disqualified from being so elected by section 21(3) and shall be deemed to have resigned his membership of the first-mentioned District Board with effect from the day imme- diately preceding the date on which he commences to hold office as an elected member of the second-mentioned District Board.".
Section 22A of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-
"Effect of election in
other Council
area.
5.
22A. (1) Any person who, being an appointed or elected member of-
(a) the Urban Council; or
(b) a District Board in the Urban Council area,
is elected as a member of-
(i) the Regional Council; or
(ii) a District Board in the Regional Council area, shall not be disqualified from being so elected by section 21(3) and shall be deemed to have resigned his membership referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) or, if applicable, in both paragraphs with effect from the day immediately preceding the date on which he commences to hold office as an elected member in a body referred to in either paragraph (i) or (ii).
(2) Any person who, being an appointed or elected member of-
(a) the Regional Council; or
(b) a District Board in the Regional Council area,
is elected as a member of
(i) the Urban Council; or
(ii) a District Board in the Urban Council area, shall not be disqualified from being so elected by section 21(3) and shall be deemed to have resigned his membership referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) or, if applicable, in both paragraphs with effect from the day immediately preceding the date on which he commences to hold office as an elected member in a body referred to in either paragraph (i) or (ii).”.
Section 6 of the District Boards Ordinance is amended by inserting after subsection (3) the following-
"(4) If a person is a member by virtue of subsection (1)(e) and is subsequently declared elected as a member of any District Board he shall forthwith be deemed to have resigned the membership of the District Board held by virtue of subsection (1)(e).
(5) If an appointed member of the Urban Council who is a member by virtue of subsection (1)(e)(ii) is elected to a District Board, the Urban Council shall not nominate another appointed member to replace that member so long as he remains an appointed member of the Urban Council.”.