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Addion of

new Lause XXIA to the principal Instructions

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

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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 Legislative 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.".

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