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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

HONG KONG

No. 35 of 1948.

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I assent.

L.S.

A. G. GRANTHAM, Governor.

Short title.

Ordinance No. 7 of 1935.

Appointment of members of Council with

retrospective effect.

Ordinance

No. 6 of 1946.

15th July, 1948.

An Ordinance to validate the continuance in office of the six members of the Urban Council appointed by the Governor under the provisions of sub-section (9) of section 3 and section 6 of the Urban Council Ordinance, 1935, to hold office until the 24th of May, 1948.

[15th July, 1948.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Urban Council (Constitution) (Validation) Ordinance, 1948, and shall be read as one with the Urban Council Ordinance, 1935, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.

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(1) The persons hereinafter named shall be deemed to have been lawfully appointed to be members of the Urban Council in exercise of the power conferred upon the Governor by section 3 of the principal Ordinance as amended by the Urban Council (Transitional Provisions) Ordinance, 1946, in like manner and with the like result as if the Governor had in fact lawfully so appointed them and as if a notification in the Gazette announcing their appointment had been published in a Gazette of the 25th of May, 1948.

(2) The persons herein before referred to are:

Abbas el Arculli

Benjamin Wong Tape, o.B.E.

Lo Man Wai

Ngan Shing Kwan

Alberto Maria Rodrigues, M.B.E., M.B., B.S.

Charles Edward Terry.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 14th day of July, 1948.

ALASTAIR TODD, Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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