CO129-513-7 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong 21-12-1928 - 14-2-1930 — Page 46

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And whereas byour Additional Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet bearing date the tenth day of January, 1922, and the fifteenth day of November, 1928, respectively, We did make certain provisions respecting the said Executive

and Legislative Councils:

And whereas we are minded to make further

provisions respecting the said Executive and

Legislative Councils:

Now therefore We do, as from the date of the

receipt in the Colony of these Our Additional Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet,

hereby revoke the Second, Tifth, Thirteenth

and Twentieth Clauses of Our said Instructions

of the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, as amended by our Additional Instructions of the fifteenth day of November, 1928, without

prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder,

and instead thereof We do direct and enjoin and declare Our will and pleasure that from the date of such receipt the aforesaid Instructions shall

henceforth be construed and take effect as if the

following clauses had been inserted therein in

place of the Second, Fifth, Thirteenth and

Twentieth Clauses thereof:-

II.

The Executive Council of the

Colony shall consist of the Iieutenant-

Governor of the Colony (if any), the

persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of Colonial

Revokes Clauses II, XIII, XIV and AV of Instructions.

Constitution of Executive Council.