TNAG-1714-FCO40-2393-Hong-Kong-amendments-to-Letters-Patent-and-Royal-Instruction-1988 — Page 76

ADD ONAL INSTRUCTIONS To Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and ov 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—

construction

1. (1) These Instructions may be cited as the Hong Kong Additional Instructions Citation, 1988 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 1986 and these Instructions may be cited together as the Hong Kong Royal Instructions 1917 to 1988.

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

(4) The membership of the Executive Council of a person appointed thereto prior to the commencement of these Instructions shall not be affected by the change in description made by Clause 2 of these Instructions.

2. Clause II of the principal Instructions is amended by deleting the word "Unofficial" wherever it occurs and substituting the word "Appointed".

3. Clause III of the principal Instructions is amended-

(a) by deleting the words "or Unofficial" where they occur in the phrase "an

Official or Unofficial Member of the Council": and

(b) by deleting the words "an Unofficial" where they occur elsewhere and

substituting the words "an Appointed".

4. Clause XXI of the principal Instructions is amended in paragraph (2) by deleting the words "there shall preside at any meeting of the Council" and substituting the words "from a meeting of the Legislative Council there shall preside at that meeting".

and

commencement,

Amendment of Clause II of principal Instructions. Amendment of Clause III of principal Instructions.

Amendment of Clause XXI of principal

Instructions.

5. Clause XXIA of the principal Instructions is amended by deleting paragraph Amendment of (3) and substituting the following-

"(3) The consideration of any Bill or other business of the Legislative Council shall not be affected by the termination of a session and may be resumed at any subsequent sitting, but shall lapse on a dissolution of the Legislative Council.”.

6. Clause XXV of the principal Instructions is amended in paragraph (2) by deleting the words "paragraphs, numbered consecutively, and to every such clause there shall be annexed in the margin a short summary of its contents" and substituting the words "paragraphs numbered consecutively".

7. Clause XXVIII of the principal Instructions is amended by deleting the words "and of the marginal summary thereof,”.

Clause XXIA of principal Instructions.

Amendment of Clause XXV

of principal

Instructions.

Amendment of Clause XXVIII of principal Instructions.

8. Clause XXVIIIA of the principal Instructions is amended in paragraph (1) by Amendment of deleting the proviso and substituting the following-

Clausc XXVIIIA of

Instructions.

"Provided that the Legislative Council shall stand dissolved in the third year principal after the latest election for all the Elected Members of the Legislative Council on such date as the Governor shall fix being a date not earlier than 60 days and not later than 30 days before the anniversary of that election.".

Given at Our Court at St. James's this

seventh year of Our Reign.

day of

in the Thirty-

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Printed in the United Kingdom for Her Majesty's Stationery Office

Dd 8422146 PS 7417810 3/88 424 3840 4089(WW)