TNAG-1714-FCO40-2393-Hong-Kong-amendments-to-Letters-Patent-and-Royal-Instruction-1988 — Page 74

Citation,

construction

and

commencement.

Amendment of Article VI of

principal

Letters

Patent.

Amendment of Article XVIA of principal Letters Patent.

Reservations.

Glementen

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth. Defender of the Faith.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE Presents shall COME, GREETING!

Know Ye that We have declared and by these Presents do declare Our Will and Pleasure as follows:-

1.-(1) These Our Letters may be cited as the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1988 and shall be construed as one with the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 as amended (hereinafter called "the principal Letters Patent").

(2) The Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 to 1986 and these Our Letters may be cited together as the Hong Kong Letters Patent 1917 to 1988.

(3) These Our Letters 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) Subject to any Instructions addressed to the Governor of Hong Kong under Our Sign Manual and Signet or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State. laws may be made for giving effect to these Our Letters and for the holding of elections in accordance therewith but, until the appointed day, nothing in these Our Letters or the said Instructions or laws shall affect the membership or powers and privileges of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong as constituted under the principal Letters Patent immediately before the date of coming into operation of these Our Letters.

(5) In these Our Letters "the appointed day" means the day (or, if more than one, the first day) appointed under a law in force in the Colony for the holding of an election in 1988 for all the Elected Members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

2. Article VI(1) of the principal Letters Patent is amended

(a) in sub-paragraph (d), by deleting the word "twenty-two" and substituting

the word "twenty”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (e), by deleting the word "twenty-four" and substituting

the word "twenty-six".

3. Article XVIA(2) of the principal Letters Patent is amended

(a) by deleting sub-paragraph (a)(ii) and substituting the following--

"(ii) in relation to a judge of the District Court who was appointed to be such judge before 1st January 1987, the age of sixty years; and

(iii) in relation to a judge of the District Court who was appointed to be such judge on or after 1st January 1987, the age of sixty-five years"; (b) by deleting sub-paragraph (b)(ii) and substituting the following---

**(ii) the term of office of a judge of the Supreme Court (other than a person appointed to be a judge of the Supreme Court under this sub-paragraph) or a judge of the District Court referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(ii) may be extended for a specified period or periods not exceeding five years in the aggregate.".

4. We do hereby reserve to Ourself, Our Heirs and Successors full power and authority to amend or revoke these Presents.

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