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Members of the Council, as also a casting vote, if upon any question the votes shall be equal.
and casting vote.
Rules and
XIX. The Legislative Council may from time to time make Standing Rules and Orders for the regulation of their own proceedings; provided such Rules and Orders be not repugnant to Our said Letters Patent, or to these Our Instructions, or to any other Instructions from Us under Our Sign Manual and Signet.
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XX. It shall be competent for any Member of the Legislative Council to propose any question for debate therein; and such question, if seconded by any other Member, shall be debated and disposed of according to the Standing Rules and Orders. Provided always, that every Ordinance, vote, resolution, or question, the object or effect of which may be to dispose of or charge any part of Our revenue arising within the Colony, shall be proposed by the Governor, unless the proposal of the same shall have been expressly allowed or directed by him.
XXI. In the making of Laws the Governor and the Council shall observe, as far as practicable, the following Rules:
1. All Laws shall be styled "Ordinances", and the enacting words shall be, "enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof".
under which Ordinances are to be enacted. Form of enacting Ordinances to be numbered and methodically arranged.
2. All Ordinances shall be distinguished by titles, and shall be divided into successive clauses or paragraphs, numbered consecutively, and to every such clause there shall be annexed in the margin a short summary of its contents. The Ordinances of each year shall be distinguished by consecutive numbers, commencing in each year with the number one.
3. Each different matter shall be provided for by a different Ordinance, without intermixing into one and the same Ordinance such things as have no proper relation to each other; and no clause is to be inserted in or annexed to any Ordinance which shall be foreign to what the title of such Ordinance imports, and no perpetual clause shall be part of any temporary Ordinance.
No clause to be introduced foreign to what title of Ordinance
XXII. The Governor shall not, except in the cases hereunder mentioned, assent in Our name to any Ordinance of any of the following classes:
1. Any Ordinance for the divorce of persons joined together in holy matrimony.
Temporary Ordinances.
Description of Ordinances not to be assented to.
2. Any Ordinance whereby any grant of land or money, or other donation or gratuity, may be made to himself,
3. Any Ordinance whereby any increase or diminution may be made in the number, salary, or allowances of the public officers.
4. Any Ordinance affecting the Currency of the Colony, or relating to the issue of Bank notes.