RULES OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL-HONGKONG
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(5) The Clerk shall be responsible for the custody of the votes, records, bills, and other documents laid before the Council, which shall be open to inspection by members of the Council and other persons under such arrangements as may sanctioned by the President.
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8.-ORDER OF BUSINESS
Unless the Council otherwise direct, the business of each sitting day shall be transacted in the following order:
1. Confirmation of minutes of last preceding meeting.
2. Oath or affirmation of allegiance of a new member.
Announcements.
3.
Papers, including any reports of standing or select committees which are laid upon the table by order of the Governor and which are not the subject of any motion.
4.
5.
Petitions.
6.
7.
Questions.
Government business.
8. Unofficial members' motions.
Government business shall be set down in such order as the President may direct, and unofficial members' motions shall be set down in the order in which notice of each motion was given.
9.-PETITIONS
(1) Every petition intended to be presented to the Council must conclude with a prayer setting forth the general object of the petitioner.
(2) A petition shall not be presented to the Council unless it be in accordance with the rules then in force in regard to petitions.
(3) The member presenting a petition may state concisely the purport of the petition.
(4) All petitions shall be ordered to lie upon the table without question put unless a member when presenting a petition move for it to be read, printed or referred to a select committee.
(5) The Council will not receive any petition-
(a) which is not addressed to the Council;
(b)
which is not properly and respectfully worded;
(c) which has not at least one signature on the sheet on which the
prayer of the petition appears;
(d)
which has not at least the prayer at the head of each subsequent
sheet of signatures;
(e)
which asks for a grant of public money or the release of a debt to public funds unless the recommendation of the Governor thereto has been signified; or
(f) which does not conform with such rules as may from time to time
be prescribed by the Council.
10.-PAPERS
(1) All papers shall be presented by an official member of the Council and their presentation shall be entered upon the minutes.
(2) A member presenting a paper may make a short explanatory statement of its contents.
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