TNAG-1353-FCO40-1794-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-1985 — Page 44

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS To Our Governor and Commander- in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies or other Officer for the time being Administering the Government of Our said Colony and its Dependencies.

We do hereby direct and enjoin and declare Our Will and pleasure as follows:-

1.-(1) These Instructions may be cited as the Hong Kong Additional Instructions 1985 and shall be construed as one with the Hong Kong Royal Instructions of 1917 as amended (hereinafter called "the principal Instructions").

(2) The Hong Kong Royal Instructions 1917 to 1984 and these Instructions may be cited together as the Hong Kong Royal Instructions 1917 to 1985.

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commence- ment and

saving.

(3) These Instructions shall be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette and, subject to paragraph (4), shall come into operation upon the date of such publication.

(4) The Legislative Council of Hong Kong may make laws for giving effect to these Instructions and for the holding of elections prior to the appointed date to elect persons to be Elected Members of the said Legislative Council in accordance therewith but, until the appointed date, nothing in these Instructions or the said laws shall affect the membership or powers and privileges of the said Legislative Council as constituted under Our Letters Patent and the principal Instructions immediately before the date of coming into operation of these-Instructions/

(5) In these Instructions "the appointed date" means such date as the said Governor shall appoint for the commencement of the session of the said Legislative Council commencing next after the current session thereof.

2. The principal Instructions are amended by adding, immediately after Clause XII, the following-

"Election to

Legislative

Council.

XIIA.-(1) An election for all Elected Members of the Legislative Council in accordance with a law in force in the Colony shall be held:-

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(a) in 1985; and

(b) within three months after any subsequent dissolution

of the Council.

(2) Elections for casual vacancies among the Elected Members shall be held in accordance with a law in that behalf in force in the Colony.".