THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 20, 1917.
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2. All Ordinances shall be distinguished by titles, and shall be divided Ordinances to be into successive clauses or paragraphs, numbered consecutively, and to every methodically such clause there shall be annexed in the margin a short summary of its arranged. contents. The Ordinances of each year shall be distinguished by con- secutive numbers, commencing in each year with the number one.
Except in the case of Bills reserved for the signification of Our pleasure, all Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council in any one year shall, if assented to by the Governor, be assented to by him in that year, and shall be dated as of the day on which the assent of the Governor is given, and shall be numbered as of the year in which they are passed. Bills not so assented to by the Governor, but reserved by him for the signification of Our pleasure, shall be dated as of the day and numbered as of the year on and in which they are brought into operation.
same Ordinance.
3. Each different matter shall be provided for by a different Ordinance, Different subjects without intermixing in one and the same Ordinance such things as have not to be mixed in no proper relation to each other; and no clause is to be inserted in or No clause to be annexed to any Ordinance which shall be foreign to what the title of such introduced foreign Ordinance imports, and no perpetual clause shall be part of any temporary Ordinance imports. Ordinance.
to what title of
Temporary Ordinances.
XXVI. The Governor shall not, except in the cases hereunder men- Description of Bills tioned, assent in Our name to any Bill of any of the following classes:
1. Any Bill for the divorce of persons joined together in holy matri-
mony:
2. Any Bill whereby any grant of land or money, or other donation or gratuity, may be made to himself :
3. Any Bill affecting the Currency of the Colony or relating to the issue of Bank notes:
4. Any Bill establishing any Banking Association, or amending or altering the constitution, powers, or privileges of any Banking Association:
5. Any Bill imposing differential duties:
6. Any Bill the provisions of which shall appear inconsistent with obligations imposed upon Us by Treaty:
7. Any Bill interfering with the discipline or control of Our forces by land, sea, or air :
8. Any Bill of an extraordinary nature and importance, whereby Our prerogative, or the rights and property of Our subjects not residing in the Colony, or the trade and shipping of Our United Kingdom and its Depen- dencies, may be prejudiced :
9. Any Bill whereby persons not of European birth or descent may be subjected or made liable to any disabilities or restrictions to which persons of European birth or descent are not also subjected or made liable:
10. Any Bill containing provisions to which Our assent has been once refused, or which have been disallowed by Us:
not to be
assented to.
immediate
Unless in the case of any such Bill as aforesaid the Governor shall Proviso in cases of have previously obtained Our instructions upon such Bill through one of emergency for Our Principal Secretaries of State, or unless such Bill shall contain a clause operation of an suspending the operation of such Bill until the signification of Our Ordinance. pleasure thereupon, or unless the Governor shall have satisfied himself that an urgent necessity exists requiring that such Bill be brought into immediate operation, in which case he is authorised to assent in Our name to such Bill, unless the same shall be repugnant to the law of Eng- land, or inconsistent with any obligations imposed on Us by treaty. But he is to transmit to Us, by the earliest opportunity, the Bill so assented to, together with his reasons for assenting thereto.
XXVII. Every Bill intended to affect or benefit some particular person, Private Bills. association or corporate body shall contain a section saving the rights of Us, Our heirs and successors, all bodies politic and corporate, and all others except such as are mentioned in the Bill and those claiming by, from, and
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