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The Superintendent,
London Gazette.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
Legal Executive Branch,
Room W44/7, K197, Charles Downing Street,
Kinge
London, S.W.1.
30 December 1970.
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, S.W.1.
23 December 1970.
9) The Queen has been pleased, by Letters Patent dated the 23rd of December 1970, passed under the Great Seal of the Realm, to amend sticker of further "The Letters Patent of the 14th of Abmary 1957, constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony Ажвукоў of Hong Kong and it's Dependencies.
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HONG KONG
LETTERS PATENT passed under the Great Seal of the Realm amending
the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 to 1967.
Dated: 23rd December 1970.
ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING!
Know Ye that We have declared and by these Presents do declare Our Will and pleasure as follows-
1. (1) These Our Letters may be cited as the Hong Kong Letters Citation, Patent 1970 and shall be construed as one with the Hong Kong Letters construction Patent 1917 as amended (hereinafter called the principal Letters Patent ").
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(2) The Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 to 1967 and these Our Letters may be cited together as the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 to 1970.
(3) These Our Letters shall be published in the Hong Kong Govern- ment Gazette and shall come into operation upon the date of such publication.
and com- mencement.
2. Article XIV of the principal Letters Patent is revoked and Replacement replaced by the following-
of Article XIV of
"Governor XIV. The Governor may constitute and appoint such principal empowered Judges, Justices of the Peace and other public officers as Letters Judges and may be lawfully appointed, all of whom shall, unless other- other public wise provided by law, hold their offices during Our pleasure.”.
to appoint
officers.
3. Article XV of the principal Letters Patent is amended by deleting in any court, or before any Judge or other Magistrate within the Colony, a pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions, or any remission of the sentence and substituting the following-
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"by any court of law in the Colony (other than a court martial established under any Act of Parliament), either free or subject to such conditions as the Governor may think fit to impose, a pardon or any remission of the sentence ".
Patent.
Amendment
of Article XV of
principal
Letters Patent.
4. We do hereby reserve to Ourselves, Our Heirs and Successors Power full power and authority to amend or revoke these Presents.
reserved
to Her
In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Majesty.
Patent.
Witness Ourself at Westminster the twenty-third day of December
in the nineteenth year of Our Reign.
By Warrant under The Queen's Sign Manual.
Printed by Her Majesty's Stationery OFFICE ST. STEPHEN'S PARLIAMENTARY PRESS
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YOUR TELNO 821 [OF 7 DECEMBER] AND MINE NO. 813 [OF 10 DECEMBER].
HONG KONG LETTERS PATENT PASSED UNDER GREAT SEAL 23 DECEMBER 1970.
THE ORIGINAL AND SIX PLAIN COPIES WILL BE SENT AS SOON AS AVAILABLE.
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