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Speech by the Chief Secretary on 6 July 1988 on moving
Resolution to amend the standing orders of the Legislative
Council
He said:
Sir,
I move the motion in my name standing in the
Order Paper..
The main purpose of the amendments to Standing Orders set out in the Order Paper is to provide for the forthcoming dissolution of this Council and subsequent dissolutions. Thus ause
Thus lause 2 provides that a session of the Council will end on a dissolution, lause 3 enables the Council to convene for the consideration of urgent business in the period between Election Day and the date set for the Governor to give his annual address. Clause 4 is a technical amendment which makes it clear that the period between sessions excludes the period of dissolution, and clause 5 provides that Standing Orders shall apply
to any sitting held for the consideration of urgent business following a dissolution.
The opportunity of this amendment is taken to make other desirable amendments to Standing Orders. For example, lause 1 is intended to make it clear that the President does not have to be absent from Hong Kong, but merely from the Legislative Council, before the arrangements for presiding in his absence may apply. This follows
a similar clarification which was made when the Royal Instructions were amended earlier this year.
Clauses 6 and 7(b) provide for the replacement of marginal notes in Bills by left margin section headings. This amendment also follows from recent changes to the Royal Instructions.
Clauses