"the Chief Manager or Acting Chief Manager or such other person as may for the time being in Hong Kong be in charge of the business of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation".
Made by the Court this 29th day of September, 1953.
URBAN COUNCIL ORDINANCE
(Chapter 101)
URBAN COUNCIL ELECTION (Amendment) RULES, 1953.
Registrar of the University.
Approved by the Governor in Council this 14th day of November, 1953.
Deputy Claro Councils.
Council CHAMBER,
14th November, 1953-
(Secretariat (/1946/51)
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Urban Council Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the follow- ing rules-
1. These rules may be cited as the Urban Council Election Citation. (Amendment) Rules, 1953.
of rule 2.
1. Rule 2 of the Urban Council Election Rules (hereinafter Amendment referred to as the principal rules) is amended by the deletion of (Vol II, the first two lines, and the substitution therefor of the following— p. 168).
**2. (1) There shall be an election in the month of March in each year to elect members in the place of those elected members whose term of office is to expire and to fill any casual vacancy that shall exist in the prescribed number of elected members: Provided that if there shall exist at any other time a casual vacancy in the number of elected members, and if the Governor shall think fit, an election to fill such causal vacancy shall be held at such other time as the Governor may order; Provided also that in 1953 an election shall be held in the month of May in lieu of March, at which election four mem- bers shall be elected,
(a) Whenever an election is to be held the Presiding Officer shall".
3.
Rule 4 of the principal rules is repealed, and replaced by Repeal and the following-
replacement of rule 4.
" (1) If the number of candidates duly nominated exceeds the number of vacancies a ballot will be held upon such date and between such times as the Presiding Officer shall notify in the Gazette.
(2) Not less than three weeks shall elapse between the date of such notification and the date appointed for the ballot.