Duration.
16. This Ordinance shall continue in force until and including the 31st day of December, 1959:
Provided that it shall be lawful for the Legislative Council by resolution to extend the duration of this Ordinance for such term, not exceeding one year at a time, as may be specified in such resolution.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 8th day of July, 1959.
HONG KONG
No. 34 of 1959.
Deputy Clerk of Councils,
(Secretariat CR7/3231/59)
I assent.
Ловчал
Governor.
23rd July, 1959.
An Ordinance to extend, with retrospective effect, the period of appoinz- ment of Brigadier Lindsay Tasman Ride, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, as Commandant of the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force and to validate acts done by him in that capacity.
WHEREAS—
[24th July, 1959.)
Preamble.
(i) on the 1st day of March, 1949, the Governor, in exercise of the powers then conferred by the Hong Kong Defence Force Regulations, 1949, appointed Brigadier (then Colonel) Lindsay (O.N.A. Tasman Ride, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the 74/49). British Empire, to be Commandant of the Royal Hong Kong Defence Force (then known as the Hong Kong Defence Force): (ii) by operation of the law the said appointment expired on the
28th day of February, 1953;
(iii) the said Brigadier Lindsay Tasman Ride has, subsequent thereto, continued and still continues with the authority of the Governor to be Commandant of the said Force and has exercised and continues to exercise the powers and functions appertaining to the said appointment;