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Amended 18 i. 91
Aminded 2013191
HONG KONG
THE HONG KONG ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS 1991
Dated: 1991
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 1991 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 1990 and these Instructions may be cited together as the Hong Kong Royal Instructions 1917 to 1991.
(3) These Instructions shall be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette and shall come into operation upon the date of such publication.
2.
Clause XIX of the principal Instructions is revoked and replaced by the following new Clause:-
"Validity of proceedings and quorum.
not be invalidatie
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by any
Vacancy
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XIX. (1) The Legislative Council shall not be disqualified from the transaction of business by reason of any vacancy in the membership thereof (including any vacancy when the Council first meets after an election for all the Elected Members), and any proceedings therein shall be valid notwithstanding [that some person who was not entitled to do so sat or voted in the Council or otherwise took part in the proceedings] [any defect in
the election, appointment or qualification of any Member thereof].
(2) If at any sitting of the Legislative Council a quorum is not present and any ember who is present objects on that account to the
transaction of business and, after such interval as may be prescribed by standing rules and orders of the Council, the Governor person-presiding at the sitting
Citation, construction
and
commencement.
Clause XIX of principal Instructions revoked and replaced.
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