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Unofficial Members.
Provisional
appointments in
Members
absent, &c
CONSTITUTION OF COUNCILS- HONGKONG
not exceeding six in number at any one time, as at the date of the coming into operation of Our said recited Letters Patent are Unofficial Members of the said Council, or as the Governor, in pursuance of Instructions from Us, through one of our Principal Secretaries of State, may from time to time appoint by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be styled Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council.
XIV.--Whenever any Official Member other then an ex Officio place of Official Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony shall, by writing under his hand, resign his seat in the Council, or shall die, or be suspended from the exercise of his functions as a Member of the Council, or be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony to be incapable of exercising his functions as a Member of the Council, or be absent from the Colony, or shall be acting in an office the holder of which is an ex Officio Member of the Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, provisionally appoint some person to be temporarily an Official Member of the Council in the place of the Member so resigning, or dying, or being suspended, or declared incapable, or being absent, or sitting as an ex Officio Member.
Such person shall forthwith cease to be an Official Member of the Council if his appointment is disallowed by Us, or if the M-mber in whose place he was appointed shall return to the Colony, or shall be released from suspension, or shall be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal capable. of again discharging his functions in the said Council, or shall cease to sit in the Council as an ex Officio Member. The Governor shall, without delay, report to Us, for Our confirmation be immediately or di allowance, through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, every provisional appointment of any person as an Official Member of the Legislative Council. Every such person shall hold his place in the Council during Our pleasure, and the Governor may by an Iustrument under the Public Seal revoke any such appointment.
Provisional appointments to
reported.
Revocation of such appoint.
ments.
Provisional
appointments in
al Members
absent, & c.
XV.-If any Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council shall die, or place of Unoffici- become incapable of discharging his functions as a Member of the Council, or be suspended or removed from bis seat in the Council, or be absent from the Colony, or if he resign by writing under his hand, or if his seat become vacant, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, provisionally appoint in his place a fit person to be temporarily an Unofficial Member of the said Council.
Provisional appointments to
reported.
Such person shall forthwith cease to be a Member if his appointment is disallowed by Us, or if the Member in whose place he was appointed shall return to the Colony, or, as the case may be, shall be released from suspension, or shall be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal capable of again discharging his functions in the said Council.
The Governor shall, without delay, report to Us, for Our confirmation be immediately or disallowance, to be signified through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, every provisional appointment of any person as an Unofficial Member Revocation of of the Legislative Council. Every such person shall hold his place in the such appoint. Council during Our pleasure, and the Governor may by an Instrument
under the Public Seal revoke any such appointment.
ments.
Vacation of seats
by Unofficial Members.
XVI.-Every person who at the date of the coming into operation of Our said recited Letters Patent is an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council may retain his seat until the end of six years from the date of his appointment, and every Unofficial Member appointed after the date of the coming into operation of Our said recited Letters Patent shall vacate his seat at the end of six years from the date of the Instrument by which or in pursuance of which he is appointed, unless it is otherwise provided by
that Instrument.
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