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RULES OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL HONGKONG.
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11.QUESTIONS TO MEMBERS in odd to ou
(1) Questions may be put to official members relative to public affairs with which they are officially connected, proceedings pending in the Council, or any matter of administration for which such members are responsible.
'(2) Questions may also be put to 'other members, relating to a bill, motion, or other public matter connected with the business of the Council for which such mem- bers are responsible.
(3) A question shall not contain arguments, inferences, opinions, imputations, epithets, ironical expressions, or hypothetical cases.
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(4) A question shall not include the names of persons, or statements, not strictly necessary to render the question intelligible, nor contain charges which the member, who asks the question, is not prepared to, substantiate.
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(5) A question must not be asked for the purpose of obtaining an expression of opinion, the solution of an abstract legal case, or the answer to a hypothetical proposition.
(6) A question shall not be asked without written notice unless it is of an urgent character and the member has obtained the leave of the President so to ask it.
(7). A question must not be made the pretext for a debate, nor can a question fully answered be asked again without the leave of the President.
(8) A member may ask a supplementary question for the purpose of further elucidating any matter of fact regarding which an answer has been given; but a supplementary question must not be used to introduce matter not included in the original question.
12. MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR AND ADDRESS BY THE GOVERNOR
A message from the Governor, if presented to the Council by an official member, may be brought up at any tinie before the commencement or at the close of public business; and shall be considered forthwith or ordered to be considered upon a future day as the member presenting it may appoint. The Governor may address the Council at any time.
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12.-MANNER OF GIVING NOTICES
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(1) Where under any Standing Oider (or the practice of the Council) notice is required, such notice shall be given by being handed in at the Table during the sitting of the Council or by delivery at the office of the Clerk or other place appointed by Standing Order (or the President) within the hours prescribed for the purpose.
(2) Except with the permission of the President, no notice shall be valid for any particular meeting of Council unless it shall have been, so handed in or delivered at least three clear days before such meeting of Council. Sundays and holidays. shall not be included in the computation of the said period of three days.
(3) Any such notice shall be printed and shall be circulated to members of the Council, if possible not less than two clear days before the next meeting of the Council for which it is valid.
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