CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 2

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Except where otherwise indicated, marginal notes in red refer to the Local Government Act, 1933.

An Ordinance to provide for the establishment of

a Municipal Council in and for certain parts of the

Colony of Hong Kong.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong with the

advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as

follows:---

PART I.

PRELIMINARY

1.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Municipal

Short Title.

Council Ordinance, 194

Interpretation.

2.

In this Ordinance

(a) "Clerk of the Council" means the officer for the

time being lawfully discharging the functions of

clerk of the Council.

(b) "Corporate land" means land belonging to, or held

in trust for, or to be acquired by or held in trust

for, the Hong Kong Municipal Council otherwise

than for an express statutory purpose.

(c) "Council" means the Hong Kong Municipal Council

established under this Ordinance.

(a) "Elector" or "registered elector" means a person

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registered as an elector in the register of

electors for the time being in force for the

purpose of election of members of the Couuncil and

if at any time no such register be in force, then

a person so registered as aforesaid in the register

last in force or whose name appears in the electors

lists as corrected by the registration officer.

(e) "Electoral area" or "electoral division" in relation

to an election means the Municipality or the electoral

division or ward thereof for which the election is,

or is to be, held.

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