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ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS-HONGKONG

Executive

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II.-The Executive Council of the Colony shall consist of the Lieut- Constitution of ant-Governor of the Colony (if any), the Senior Military Officer for Council. e time being in command of Our regular troops within the Colony, e persons for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of olonial Secretary, of Attorney-General, of Secretary for Chinese Affairs, ad of Treasurer of the Colony, who are hereinafter referred to as officio Members, and of such other persons as at the date of the ming into operation of Our said recited Letters Patent are Members the said Council, or as We may from time to time appoint by any structions or Warrant under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or as the overnor in pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our rincipal Secretaries of State may from time to time appoint under he Public Seal of the Colony. [As amended by Additional Instruction dated 15-11-28.]

appointment of

Council.

III.-Whenever any Membe1, other than an ex officio Member, of Provisional he Executive Council of the Colony shall, by writing under his hand, Members of the esign his seat in the Council, or shall die, or be declared by the Executive

overnor by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony to be acapable of exercising his functions as a Member of the Council, or be bsent from the Colony, or shall be acting in an office the holder of hich is an ex officio Member of the Council, or shall be suspended from he exercise of his functions as a Member of the Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, provisionally ppoint any public officer to be temporarily an Official or Unofficial Tember of the Council, and any person not a public officer to be tem- orarily an Unofficial Member of the Council in the place of the Member resigning, or dying, or being suspended, or declared incapable, or eing absent, or sitting as an ex officio Member.

Such person shall forthwith cease to be a Member of the Council if is appointment is disallowed by Us, or if the Member in whose place he as appointed shall be released from suspension, or, as the case may be, hall be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public eal capable of again discharging his functions in the Council, or shall eturn to the Colony, or shall cease to sit in the Council as an ex officio Tember.

be immediately

IV. The Governor shall without delay, report to Us, for Our con- Such provisional rmation or disallowance, through one of Our Principal Secretaries of appointments to tate, every provisional appointment of any person as a Member of the reported. aid Executive Council. Every such person shall hold his place in the ouncil during Our pleasure, and the Governor may by an Instrument nder the Public Seal revoke any such appointment.

V.-The Official Members of the Executive Council shall take pre- Precedences. edence of the Unofficial Members, and among themselves shall have eniority and precedence as We may specially assign, and, in default hereof, first, the ex officio Members in the order in which their offices re above mentioned (except that the Senior Military Officer, if below he rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in Our Army, shall take precedence after he person lawfully discharging the functions of Attorney-General), and then other Official Members and all Unofficial Members according to the riority of their respectivé appointments, or if appointed by or in pur- uance of the same Instrument, according to the order in which they are amed therein.

Instructions

VI.-The Governor shall forthwith communicate these Our Instruc- Governor to ions to the Executive Council, and likewise all such others, from time to communions to ime, as We may direct, or as he shall find convenient for Our service to Executive apart to them.

Council.

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