Directory_and_Chronicle_1931 — Page 375

:

ADDITIONAL ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS-HONGKONG

Every person so provisionally appointed shall forthwith cease to be a Member of the Council if his appointment is disallowed by Us, or revoked by the Governor, or superseded by the definitive appointment of an Official or Unofficial Member of the Council, or if the Member in whose place he was appointed shall return to the Colony,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, or shall cease to discharge the functions of more than one of the offices the holders of which are ex officio Members of the Council, as the case may be."

323

appointments to

The Governor shall, without delay, report to Us, for Our confirma- Provisional tion or disallowance, through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, be immediately every provisional appointment of any person as an Official or Unofficial reported. Member of the Legislative Council.

Every such person shall hold his place in the Council during Our Revocation of pleasure, and the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public such appoint Seal, revoke any such appointment.

Given at Our Court at St. James's this Fifteenth day of November, 1928, in the Nineteenth year of Our Reign.

ments.

ADDITIONAL ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS

Additioual Instructions passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong- kong in regard to the precedence of Members of the Legislative Council thereof.

Dated 20th November, 1929.

GEORGE R.I.

Additional Instructions to Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, or other Officer for the time being administering the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies.

Whereas by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our Preamble. Realm bearing date at Westminster the Fourteenth day of February, 1917, We did make provision for the Government of Our Colony of

Hongkong and its Dependencies (hereinafter called the Colony) and Recites Letters did amongst other things declare that there should be a Legislative February, 1917. Council in and for the Colony which should consist of such persons as We might direct by Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet :

11*

Page 375Page 376