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The Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 to 1988 and these Our
Letters Patent may be cited together as the Hong Kong Letters Patent
1917 to 1990.
(3) These Our Letters shall be published in the Hong Kong
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operation upon the date of publication.
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Principal Secretaries of State, laws may be made for giving effect
to these Our Letters and for the holding of elections in accordance
therewith but, until thẻ, appointed day, nothing in these Our Letters
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constituted under the principal Letters Patent immediately before
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(5) In these Our Letters "the appointed day" means the day
(or, if more than one day, the first day) appointed under a law in
force in the Colony for the holding of an election in 1991 for all
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Amendment CJ Antule F1
E pissinful Letter:
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(1) Article VI (1) of the principal Letters Patent is amended -
(a) in sub-paragraph (b) by adding "(who shall be stylat
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"ex officio Members)" at the end;
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by repealing/ paragraph (c)}
diliting the weat
in sub-paragraph (d), by repealing "twenty" and
substituting/ *•
substituting/"eighteen"; and
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