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(2) Until the contrary is proved, a meeting of the Council or of a committee thereof, in respect of the proceedings whereof a minute has been kept and authenticated in accordance with standing orders, shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held and all the members present at the meeting shall be deemed to have been duly qualified, and where the proceedings are proceedings of a committee, the com- mittee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and to have had power to deal with the matters referred to in the minutes.”.
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 16th day of August, 1972,
HỦNG LONG
No. 51 of 1972
Clerk to the Legistative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
I assent.
Mugh
Acting Governor.
Narman-Wate
17th August, 1972.
An Ordinance to make new provision in relation to powers of
attomey and for matters connected therewith.
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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
Commencement.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Powers of Attorney Short title and Ordinance 1972, and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.
2. (1) An instrument creating a power of attorney shall be signed and sealed by, or by direction and in the presence of, the donor of the power.
(2) Where such an instrument is signed and sealed by a person by direction and in the presence of the donor of the power, two other persons shall be present as witnesses and shall altesi the instrument.
(3) This section is without prejudice to any requirement in, or baving effect under, any other Ordinance as to the witnessing
Execution of powers of attorney.
1971. c. 27, », 1,