Explanatory Note,
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended
to indicate their general purport),
These regulations are made to amend the principal regulations to correspond with the amendment effected by the Urban Council (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956, whereby the number of elected and appointed members were increasd to eight each with terms of office increased from two yeara to four years and elections only in alternate years. Correspondingly a new register will be prepared only in alternate years. The opportunity has been taken to make certain minor amendments to the procedure under the regulations.
(Secretariat 1/1146/52)
URBAN COUNCIL ORDINANCE, 1955. (No. 14 of 1955).
URBAN COUNCIl Elections (Designation of Polling Station) REGULATIONS, 1956,
In exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1) of section a3 of the Urban Council Ordinance, 1955. the Governor
in Council has made the following regulations-
1. These regulations may be cited as the Urban Council Citation. Elections (Designation of Polling Station) Regulations, 1956.
68/56).
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of regulation 4 of the Designa- Urban Council Elections (Registration of Electors) Regulations,
tion of a polling 1955, and notwithstanding that in pursuance thereto the registra- station. cion officer has designated the Basketball Stadium, Southern (G.N.A. Playground, Wanchai, Hong Kong, as a place to be used as a polling station, the premises known as the Casam Clob, more particularly described in the Schedule hereto, are hereby designated as a place to be used as a polling station and paragraph (2) of G.N. 773 published in the Gasette on the 15th day of July, 1955, whereby the Basketball Stadium, Southern Playground. Wanchai, Hong Kong, was designated as a place to be used as a polling station is hereby rescinded:
Provided that all things done in relation to and all references to the Basketball Stadium, Southorn Playground, Wanchai. Hong Kong, as a place to be used as a polling station shall be deemed to have been things done in relation to and to have been references to the said Casam Club.
SCHEDULE.
All those rooms now in the occupation of the Casam Club, in the building on the north side of Des Voeux Road Central and on the west elde of the Supreme Court, together with all that yard, garden and pathway situate on the east and south sides of the said rooms and lying between the said building and the lane-way adjoining the Supreme Court and between the said building and Des Voeux Road Central respectively.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
24th January, 1956.
Clerk of Councils.