NOW THEREFORE I, ALEXANDER WILLIAM GEORGE HERDER GRANTHAM, do hereby PROCLAIM the said amending Letters Patent of the 19th day of January, 1955, and fix that they shall come into operation on the 1st day of March, 1955.
GIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony of Hong Kong this 16th day of February, 1955.
Published by His Excellency's Command,
R&man
Colonial Secretary,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
HONG KONG
LETTERS PATENT passed under the Great Seal of the Realm, amending the Letters Patent of the 14th of February, 1917, constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and providing for the Government thereof.
Dated 19th January, 1955-
ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!
WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm bearing date the fourteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen (hereinafter called "the principal Letters Patent"), as amended by the Letters Patent specified in the Schedule to these Presents,
the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies was constituted and provision was made for the government thereof;
AND WHEREAS We are minded further to amend the provi- sions of the principal Letters Patent in manner hereinafter appearing:
Now Know Ye that We have ordered and declared and do hereby order and declare Our will and pleasure as follows-
1. (1) These Our Letters may be cited as the Hong Kong Citation, Letters Patent, 1954, and shall be construed as one with the construc- principal Letters Patent.
(2) The principal Letters Patent may be cited as the Hong Kong Letters Patent, 1917, and the Letters Patent specified in the Schedule to these Presents may be cited by the respective titles given in that Schedule.
(3) The principal Letters Patent, the Letters Patent specified in the Schedule to these Presents and these Our Letters may be cited together as the Hong Kong Letters Patent, 1917 to 1954- (4) These Our Letters shall be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette and shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the Governor by Proclamation published in the Gazette.
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2. The principal Letters Patent shall be amended by the Insertion of insertion after Article XIV thereof of the following new Article new Article XIVA, (0) When the holder of the Office of Hong Kong Governor or of any office constituted under Article Patent, XIV of these Letters Patent is on leave of absence 1917. pending relinquishment of his office, it shall be lawful for another person to be appointed substantively to the same office.
(a) When two or more persons are holding the same office by reason of an appointment made pursuant to paragraph (1) of this Article, then for the purposes of Articles XVII and XVIIA of these Letters Patent and for the purpose of any function conferred upon the holder of that office, the person last appointed to the office shall be deemed to be the holder of the office."