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ROYAL INSTRUCTIONS-HONGKONG

ne of Our Principal Secretaries of State, inay from time to time ppoint by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, and all uch persons shall be styled Official Members of the Legislative Council; nd further of such persons, not exceeding eight in number at any one time, s at the date of the coming into operation of Our said recited Letters

atent are Unofficial Members of the said Council, or as the Governor, Unofficial

pursuance of Instructions from Us through one of Our Principal ecretaries of State, may from time to time appoint by an Instrument nder the Public Seal of the Colony, and all such persons shall be tyled Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council.

If any Official Member of the Legislative Council cease to hold ffice in the Colony his seat in the Council shall thereupon become acant.

[As amended by Additional Instructions dated 15-11-28.]

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appointments in

XIV.--Whenever any Member other than an ex officio Member of Provisional he Legislative Council of the Colony shall, by writing under his hand, place of Mem- esign his seat in the Council, or shall die, or be suspended from the bers absent &c. xercise of his functions as a Member of the Council, or be declared by he Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony o 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, or if his seat become vacant, or whenever any person shall be lawfully discharging the func- ions of more than one of the offices the holders of which are ex officio Members of the Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony, provisionally appoint in his place some person to be temporarily an Official or Unofficial Member of the Council, as the case may be.

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forthwith cease to be a Member of the Council if his appointment is disallowed by Us, or revoked by the Governor, or superseded by the definitive appointment of an Official or Unofficial Member of the Council, or if the Member in whose place he was appointed shall return to the Colony,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.

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.

of such

Every such person shall hold his place in the Council during Our Revocation pleasure, and the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal, appointments. revoke any such appointment. [As amended by Additional Instructions dated 15-11-28.]

XV. [This clause was revoked by Additional Instructions dated November 15th, 1928.

XVI.-[This clause was revoked by Additional Instructions dated January 10th, 1922.]

void in certain

XVII.-If any Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council shall Seats declared become bankrupt or insolvent, or shall be convicted of any criminal offence, cases. or shall absent himself from the Colony for more than three months without leave from the Governor, the Governor may declare in writing that the seat of such Member at the Council is vacant, and immediately on the publication of such declaration he shall cease to be a Member of the Council.