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Form of enacting Ordinances.

Ordinances to be numbered and

methodically

arranged.

Different subjects not to be mixed in same Ordinance.

No clause to be introduced foreign to what title of

Ordinance

imports.

Temporary Ordinances.

Description of Bills not to be

assented to.

1. All laws shall be styled "Ordinances", and the enacting words shall be, "enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.”.

2. All Ordinances shall be distinguished by titles, and shall be divided into successive clauses or paragraphs, numbered conse- cutively, and to every such clause there shall be annexed in the margin a short summary of its contents. The Ordinances of each year shall be distinguished by consecutive numbers, commencing in each year with the number one.

Except in the case of Bills reserved for the signification of Our pleasure, all Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council in any one year shall, if assented to by the Governor, be assented to by him in that year, and shall be dated as of the day on which the assent of the Governor is given, and shall be numbered as of the year in which they are passed. Bills not so assented to by the Governor, but reserved by him for the signification of Our pleasure, shall be dated as of the day and numbered as of the year on and in which they are brought into operation.

3. Each different matter shall be provided for by a different Ordinance, without intermixing in one and the same Ordinance such things as have no proper relation to each other; and no clause is to be inserted in or annexed to any Ordinance which shall be foreign to what the title of such Ordinance imports, and no perpetual clause shall be part of any temporary Ordinance.

XXVI. The Governor shall not, except in the cases hereunder mentioned, assent in Our name to any Bill of any of the following classes-

1. Any Bill for the divorce of persons joined together in holy matrimony:

2. Any Bill whereby any grant of land or money, or other donation or gratuity, may be made to himself:

3. Any Bill affecting the Currency of the Colony or relating to the issue of Bank notes:

4. Any Bill establishing any Banking Association, or amend- ing or altering the constitution, powers, or privileges of any Banking Association:

5. Any Bill imposing differential duties:

6. Any Bill the provisions of which shall appear inconsistent with obligations imposed upon Us by Treaty:

7. Any Bill interfering forces by land, sea, or air:

8. Any Bill of an e whereby Our prerogative, or not residing in the Colony, o Kingdom and its Dependenc

9. Any Bill whereby pe| may be subjected or made lia which persons of European b made liable:

10. Any Bill containing been once refused, or which

Unless in the case of an shall have previously obtain through one of Our Principal shall contain a clause suspend signification of Our pleasure shall have satisfied himself th that such Bill be brought into is authorized to assent in Ot shall be repugnant to the law obligations imposed on Us by by the earliest opportunity, th reasons for assenting thereto.

XXVII. Every Bill, not ed to affect or benefit som corporate body shall contain heirs and successors, all bodie except such as are mentioned i and under them. No such Bills Council until due notice ha successive publications of the Gazette, and in such other Standing Rules and Orders f Governor shall not assent the published. A certificate under transmitted to Us with the Bil been made.

XXVIII. When any Or when any Bill shall have been pleasure, the Governor shall Principal Secretaries of State, or other direction thereupon, the same, and of the marginal under the Public Seal of the Cc copy shall be accompanied by s be required to exhibit the rea Ordinance or Bill.