TNAG-1353-FCO40-1794-Constitutional-development-in-Hong-Kong-1985 — Page 58

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ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS Te Our Governor and Commander- in-Chief in and over Our Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies or other Ollicer 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 Fastructions 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 long Kong Royal Instructions 1917 to 1985.

(3) These lustructions shall be published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette and 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 lustructions.

(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.

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Addition of new Xlause XXIA to

principal Instructions.

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:-

in 1985; and

(a)

(b) Jami

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."

3.2 Clause XIII of the principal Instructions is revoked and replaced by Replacement

the following-

"Legislative Council: Suspension

of Official or Appointed Members.

XIII. The Governor may upon suflicient cause to him appearing suspend from the exercise of his functions in the Legislative Council any Official or Appointed Member thereof pending the signification of Our pleasure, giving immediate notice to Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State. If the suspension is confirmed by Us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, the Governor shall forthwith by an instrument under the Public Seal of the Colony revoke the appointment of such Official or Appointed Member and thereupon his seat in the Legislative Council shall become vacant.".

of clause XIII of the principal Instructions.

Clause XIV of the principal Instructions is amended by inserting. Amendment immediately after the words "ex officio Member" where they appear in the second line, the words "or an Elected Member".

of Clause XIV of the principal Instructions.