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Amendment of Clause

XVIII of the principal Instructions.

Amendment of Clause XXI of the

principal Instructions.

Addition

of new

Clause XXIA

to the

principal Instructions.

Addition of new Clause XXVIIIA to the principal Instructions.

(c) that he has been sentenced to any punishment so

specified, whether in the Colony or elsewhere;

(d) on the ground of his bankruptcy or other ground

relating to indebtedness so specified;

(e) on the ground of his non-attendance at sittings of the

Council;

(f) that he has been elected as an Elected Member of the

Council,

the Governor shall declare in writing that the seat of such Appointed Member is vacant and, immediately on the publication of such declaration in the Hong Kong Govern- ment Gazette, he shall cease to be a Member of the Council.".

7. Clause XVIII of the principal Instructions is amended by inserting, immediately before the word "Member" where it appears in the first line, the words "Official or Appointed".

8. Clause XXI(3)(i) of the principal Instructions is amended by sub- stituting for the words and figures "clause XIII of these Instructions" the words and figures "Article VI(1)(b) of Our Letters Patent as set out in the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1985".

9. The principal Instructions are amended by adding, immediately after clause XXI, the following-

"Sessions and sittings of Legislative Council.

XXIA.-(1) The sessions of the Legislative Council shall commence on such date and end on such date as the Governor shall from time to time appoint by notice published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette, but the period between the last sitting of one session of the Legis- lative Council and the first sitting of the next session shall not exceed three months.

(2) The Governor, by notice published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette, may summon special sittings of the Legislative Council to be held in any period between the end of one session of the Council and the beginning of the next session.

(3) The consideration of any Bill or other business of the Council shall not be affected by the termination of a session, but it may be resumed at any subsequent sitting of the Council.".

10. The principal Instructions are amended by adding, immediately after Clause XXVIII, the following-

"Dissolution of Council.

XXVIIIA.—(1) The Governor may at any time, by Order published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette, dissolve the Legislative Council:

Provided that unless it has been sooner dissolved, the Council shall stand dissolved on the ninetieth day before the third anniversary of the first sitting of the Council following the latest election for all the Elected Members of the Council.

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(2) On the dissolution of the Council, all the Elected Members shall vacate their seats:

Provided that if, for the consideration of any urgent business, the Governor shall appoint a time for a sitting of the Council after the dissolution but before the day appointed for the holding of an election for all the Elected Members of the Legislative Council (as required by Clause XIIA of these Instructions), the persons holding office as Elected Members of the Council im- mediately before such dissolution shall continue to sit as Elected Members until the commencement of the day (or, if more than one, the first day) appointed for the holding of such elections.".

Given at Our Court of St. James's this year of Our Reign.

day of

in the

Printed in the UK for Her Majesty's Stationery Office

Dd 5053805 3/85 3840 PS4420917 (4278)