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Ord. No. 65/79

L.S.

URBAN COUNCIL (AMENDMENT)

HONG KONG

No. 65 OF 1979

I assent.

Short title and

commencement.

Amendment of section 36.

(Cap. 101.)

Amendment of section 37.

MURRAY MACLEHOSE,

Governor.

2nd August, 1979.

An Ordinance to amend the Urban Council Ordinance.

[3rd August, 1979]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Urban Council (Amend- ment) Ordinance 1979.

(2) Section 10 shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.

2.

Section 36 of the principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) in subsection (4)—

(i) by deleting paragraph (a) and substituting the following-

"(a) to approve the annual list of works or estimates of revenue or expenditure of the Council, or any revision thereof made under section 39A;

(aa) to incur expenditure in excess of that provided for in the estimates of expenditure (whether as originally ap- proved or as from time to time revised under section 39A);";

(ii) in paragraph (c), by deleting "revenue and expenditure” and substituting the following-

"receipts and payments"; and

(iii) in paragraph (e), by inserting after

inserting after "account" the following--

"or a fixed deposit account"; and

(b) by inserting after subsection (4) the following subsection—

"(5) Nothing in paragraph (a) or (aa) of subsection (4) shall affect the authority of the Council to delegate its powers in by-laws made in accordance with section 37.".

3. Section 37 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting subsections (2) and (3) and substituting the following—

"(2) Subject to subsections (1) and (3), the Council may make by-laws for the regulation and control of its finances, including pro- visions as to the following-

(a) limitations on expenditure by any committee or person to whom the Council may delegate powers to authorize expenditure;