CO129-513-7 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong 21-12-1928 - 14-2-1930 — Page 31

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Dr. Wellington and the approval of the Counsellors

of State on behalf of His Majesty the King has been

Gazetted.

4. In this connection however, certain doubts

have arisen as to the correct form of appointment to

Membership of Legislative Council and I have the

honour to request instructions on the points raised.

The points are as follows:-

(a) Should the instrument of provisional and

temporary appointment be followed by an instrument

of definitive appointment upon the receipt of His

Majesty's confirmation of the provisional appointment,

and instructions for the definitive appointment of

the person provisionally appointed?

(b) Should the instrument of definitive

appointment in the case of an unofficial member

expressly state that the appointment is for four years,

observing the initial dates laid down in clause III

of the Additional Instructions of the 10th January

1922 ?

(c) Should the instrument of provisional

appointment in the case of a (nominated) official

member, whose appointment is practically based on his

acting in a particular office, be expressed to be

conditional upon his continuing to act in that office ?

(a) Should the instrument of definitive

appointment in the case of a (nominated) official

member whose appointment is practically based on his

tenure of a particular office, be expressed to be for

so long as he shall continue to hold that office ?

(e)