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Disqualť- lication.
Returning Officer.
First Schedule.
Vacancica ood invalid elections,
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(3) The first elections held under this Ordinance shall be held on and after such date as the Governor may order, and persons elected shall hold office until the thirty-first day of May, 1962.
G. No person shall hold office as a Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Member of the Executive Committee or Councillor of the Full Council who is under the age of twenty-one years, or who is or at any time becomes-
(a) under any law in force in the Colany found or declared to be of
unsound mind;
(b) an undischarged bankrupt;
(c) a person who has been convicted by any of Her Majesty's Courts, whether or not within the Colony, of any offence for which he has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment ex- ceeding six months; or
(d) a person who has been convicted by any Court in the Colony within the preceding five years of any offence in connexion with any illegal organization.
7. (0) All elections shall be conducted by a Returning Officer appointed by the Governor. Such Returning Officer shall be in sole charge of the conduct of such elections, appointing such Assistant Re- turning Officers as he shall see fit to assist bim. On the completion of every election the Returning Officer shall declare each person elected to have been validly or invalidly elected as the case may be.
(2) Where any question arises concerning the interpretation of the election rules set out in the First Schedule the same shall be interpreted by the Returning Officer whose decision shall be final, or by an Assis- tant Returning Officer from whose decision appeal may be made to the Returning Officer.
8. (1) Where-
(a) any vacancy occurs by reason of the death, resignation or disqualification of any Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Member or Councillor, or
(b) the election of any Chairman. Vice-Chairman, Member or
Councillor is declared invalid by the Returning Officer,
a fresh election shall take place within six months of the vacancy occur- ring or the election being declared invalid, and the Governor may extend the term of office for which the election was being held for such period as he may see fit not exceeding six months from the date of such vacancy occurring,
(2) In the event of the Returning Officer declaring two successive elections to be invalid the Governor may appoint any person eligible for election to be the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Member or Councillor
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as the case may be, and such person shall hold office us if he had been duly elected thereto.
(3) In the event of the Chairman dying, resigning or becoming disqualified the Vice-Chairman first elected shall assume the office of Chairman until such time as a new Chairman shall have been elected.
PART III.
Functions of the Kuk.
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The objects of the Kuk shall be--
(a) to promote and develop mutual co-operation and understanding
among the people of the New Territories;
(b) to promote and develop co-operation and understanding be tween the Government and the people of the New Territories; (c) to advise the Govemment on social and economic develop- ments in the interests of the welfare and prosperity of the people of the New Territories:
(d) to encourage the observance of all such customs and traditional usages of the people of the New Territories as are conducive to their welfare and to the preservation of public morality; and (e) to exercise such functions as they may be invited to from time
to time by the Governor,
Objects.
10. (1) For the purpose of furthering the objects of the Kuk, it Powers. may
(a) appoint a Secretary, Treasurer and other office bearers and
determine their dulics:
(6) appoint such staff as it may require and make provision for
The payment of their salaries:
(c) appoint sub-committees and delegate functions to them;
(d) appoint such advisers as may be approved by the District
Commissioner.
(2) The provisions set out in the Second Schedule shall apply to Second the exercise of the powers and functions of the Kuk.
Schedule.
11. (1) Accounts shall be kept in a form to be approved by the Accounts. District Commissioner in respect of all funds other than the personal donations of the Chairman, Vice-Chairmen, Members and Councillors.
(2) Failure to keep accounts and to produce the same in the form required under subsection (1), shall be an offence on the part of the Chairman, Vice-Chairmen and the Treasurer of the Kuk, and on con- viction each shall be liable to a fine of two thousand dollars,
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